It has "dry asa circuit" syndrome.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Mitchell" <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: [OM] Cleaning film speed dial?
> My OM2S has a weird tendency to _sometimes_ over-read a lot; I'll point
out
> the window with the film speed set to 100 on auto on a sunny day at f16,
and
> it'll say '1000' and blink the little 'over' warning at me.
>
> The fix is to wind the film speed dial back and forth a few times and
reset
> it to 0 adjustment -- this works fine when I notice that the speed's off,
> but sometimes I don't and I don't want to wind up with shots that are very
> underexposed. (I think. I'm not 100ure this actually affects when I'm
> shooting, because I'd have expected to see more over-dark prints by now
and
> I haven't, but I can't see how it could affect the metering before
shooting
> but not while it's actually exposing).
>
> Is there a good fix for this? In the shop when I showed this to people
and
> asked for suggestions, they just squirted a drop of lighter fluid under
the
> ring which seemed to help for a little while (which would probably explain
> why it didn't get fixed by the CLA), but is there a more permanent
solution?
> Should I just get into the habit of turning it back and forth every time?
>
> (presumably I'd start by taking the film speed dial off and poking around
> under there, but I'm wary of winding up putting it back together with some
> sort of offset in there and never knowing where I really am thereafter..)
>
> thanks,
>
> -- dan
>
>
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