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Subject: [OM] Wonky OM-2S Viewfinder
From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:08:29 -0500
Things don't usually go from worse to good, so I'm having a little trouble with a weird type of good fortune. I have a OM-2S I picked up in a package deal some time ago. The manual and auto meter readings were off, so being a sucker for stray tom cats and OM-2S's I sent the body off for CLA and it came back shipshape and worked perfectly. But I struggled to focus it. I like 2-13 screens but I focus using the matte portion of the screen about 800f the time, and it was really a strain despite my using the proper -2 diopter. I thought about selling this body, but I really thought something was wrong with it and just couldn't do it (aside also from being lazy).

Then last night I picked up the camera to use it to compare meter readings against another body I have. I had no eyepiece with corrective diopter and noticed that it focused a lot easier than I remembered. I kept playing with it and discovered that the viewfinder seems to be closer to a -2 dioptric correction than any other body I have. I can focus this body much more easily without correction than with.

So I still have a camera which is not quite right, but it fits me, who am also not quite right.

Joel W.


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