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[OM] Well, sometimes you just get hosed...

Subject: [OM] Well, sometimes you just get hosed...
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:37:51 -0600
Well, after all our discussions re: eB*y and being careful, I just received a 
Tokina AT-X 24-40/2.8 zoom lens for the OM which upon initial inspection was 
fine, but which I discovered has a couple of problems:

1. My OM-4 will *not* fire with this lens mounted.  It appears to be due to the 
aperture-coupling lever -- man, is it *stiff*!  Feels like it's been loaded 
with a garage-door spring.  I can get it to fire on my OM-2s and OM-1n.  I 
don't remember any other AT-X I owned having aperture-coupling levers as stiff 
as this one.

2. There is a 1 mm long by 1/4 mm wide impact gouge on the rear element.  Yep, 
it's an impact gouge, alright.  Checked it with a 10x loupe.  Hit something 
sharp and hard at some point.

** HEAVY SIGH **

To be honest, I violated my own rules bidding on this one, and I got caught.  
Well, guess I'd best get writing that *honest* description of it, and get ready 
to take the proverbial bath on it -- shoulda known better than to stray from 
true Zuikos.  :-)


Garth


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