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Subject: [OM] Olympus Pen D: strange viewfinder
From: Andrew L Wendelborn <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:52:03 +0930
This 60s half-frame is ancient I know, but I rather like the camera and I'm
determined to put at least one roll of film through it.

It has a very nice quality feel to it, the F.Zuiko 33/1.9 lens is no
slouch, and I like the manual metering system -- read the EV number off the
meter on the top, set it on the ring below, then rotate the aperture / 
shutter rings together (keeping the EV value constant) to whatever 
combination you like. Not bad for a 60s compact easily held in the hand,
and I can't resist giving it a try.


I have a problem the viewfinder though -- it gives a blurred image.
But I can't see anything visibly wrong with it. It is of course not coupled 
to the focus control.

Looking through the viewfinder of a (regrettably non-functional) Pen EES 
gives a crisp and bright image so it's not me!

Interestingly when I look the through the D viewfinder with glasses off
(I'm a bit shortsighted) the image is much less blurred -- close to usable
in fact. But I'm sure that's not by design.


I'm not too fussed about fixing this problem, but I'm curious to know what
can go wrong in a viewfinder to make it behave like this.


Has anyone had a similar problem?



thanks
  Andrew


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