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RE: [OM] What's wrong with this lens?

Subject: RE: [OM] What's wrong with this lens?
From: "Keith Quarles" <kquarles@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:20:39 -0400
OK, I solved my own problem.  It turns out the the little tab that tells the
camera
the lens's aperture was bent in slightly away from the flange, so it wasn't
engaging its mate in the camera.  I tweaked it back out and all is fine now.

Keith

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Subject: [OM] What's wrong with this lens?


I recently came into possession of a Zuiko 35mm/f2.8
Shift lens, and my camera (an OM-4T in this case)
doesn't seem to meter correctly with it.

For comparison, I metered a uniformly-lit surface using
the normal 35/2.8 wide open and got a reading of 1/125
(which seems reasonable).  When I mount the 35 Shift and
meter the same surface with the lens wide open I get a
reading of about 1/4 (which seems quite unreasonable).

It is almost as though the camera thought it had an
automatic lens stopped down 5 stops.  What could cause
this behavior?  Is this some sort of linkage problem?

And, yes, I know this lens has a manual aperture and I
have to do stopped-down metering.  That's why I noted
above that both lenses were wide-opn for the test.

Any good pointers will be appreciated.

--
Keith Quarles
kquarles@xxxxxxx


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