The Olympus Auto is actually what I received, yesterday. (Yes, I bought it on
that horride place. However, the total purchase was under $30US including
shipping.) The film wind is buggered up. The lever itself is loose and it
feels like there is either a linkage of some sort that is not connected, or
perhaps something broken. The top of the film wind lever is a disc that serves
as a film memo. This disc has four positions: Color [bright sun], Color
[overcast}, Pan and Emp. I have no clue what "Emp" means.
The viewfinder is pretty good, but the rangefinder window glass is unstuck and
needs to be glued back in. Other than that, the camera is in pretty clean
shape, and I would guess would be quite useable IF the film wind mechanism can
be put right.
Setting the exposure is a bit of a mystery; aperture and shutter speed (both
controlled on the lens barrel) are linked. The ASA setting is inscrutable to
me. It appears to be on the camera back, down and to the right of the
viewfinder on the top edge of camera back. It is a tiny disc and I have not
figured out how to change the setting. There are two, very small slider
buttons on the camera back, top right. Right now they don't seem to do
anything.
The case is in so-so shape. Not falling apart, but missing one metal bit that
secures the strap... if the strap were around, which it isn't. There are the
expected marks on the case, spots of brown stain missing, etc. But it is not
rotted.
Earl
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On 10/9/2003 at 2:22 PM clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Oops! Vision Age #4 shows that the Olympus Auto (1958) also had the
>phrase "electro-set" on the top of the top cover. Like the S, it had
>a 42mm G. Zuiko f/1.8 lens, but used a Seiko SLV shutter.
>
>
>clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Olympus' VisionAge #7, "The Zuiko Story (7) -- A History of Olympus
>Cameras" shows that the Olympus S, which was introduced in 1962,
>> included the phrase "Electro Set" on the front of the camera, just below
>the silicone cell. No other cameras illustrated include this
>> label so I suspect this is the model you are referring to.
>>
>> In that year Olympus also introduced the Auto Eye II, "Japan's first
>35mm auto exposure camera", says the article. The S (aka,
>> "Electro Set"), on the other hand, provided full manual controls but
>included a "coupled exposure meter". The lens was a G. Zuiko (7
>> element) 42mm f/1.8 with a Copal 00 shutter.
>>
>> Earl Dunbar wrote:
>>
>> > Anyone every had or seen an Olympus ElectroSet? Haven't seen much
>info on these, but looks like an Oly version of the Yashica GS.
>> >
>> > Earl
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