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Re: [OM] OM-4Ti - first fright

Subject: Re: [OM] OM-4Ti - first fright
From: "M. Royer" <royer007@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:53:59 -0800 (PST)
Whoo that IS a nightmare, a camera just locking up on
you and refusing to unstick... Only nightmare I have
that is worse is the prospect of dropping my shift
lens onto concrete like the scratched one Jim Brokaw
got. Or dunking it in salt water.

Mark Lloyd

--- gries <gries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, it happened this morning.  I was happily
> shooting the Calder
> sculpture in front of Federal Plaza, when the -4Ti
> just locked up and
> wouldn't let the shutter go.  I spun the dial around
> to Mech. B 60, but
> w/ no success - it was worse than I thought!  Radio
> Shack didn't open
> until 8:30, so I had to wait in agony until I could
> get to the bottom of
> the situation.
> 
> Well, after replacing the battery - nothing.  No
> beep from the battery
> check, no movement in the shutter, nothing!  I
> release the roll of film
> and remove it from the camera.  Shutter was closed,
> but still nothing
> working.  There was a rattle coming from the camera
> - what I presumed to
> be a limp mirror flopping around helplessly.  
> 
> Thankfully when I removed the lens I saw the new 2-4
> screen removed form
> its housing and jamming up the whole works.  It
> suffered a small
> scratch, but to have my camera back was pleasing
> enough.  I knew it was
> punishment for not going to mass this morning, but I
> guess a quick
> repentance helped me to recover my favorite body! ;)
>  what a morning...
> 
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