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[OM] Re: Question about OM-4 spot meter

Subject: [OM] Re: Question about OM-4 spot meter
From: "Timpe, Jim" <Jim.Timpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:22:29 -0700
Meters in my 3 and 4s all work advanced or not.  Dirt/oxidation/corrosion
sounds like the culprit, unfortunately.  

Try loosening and retightening the bottom plate screws.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew McPhee [mailto:macca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 6:02 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Question about OM-4 spot meter


Thanks for the tips.

I checked the screws on the bottom - all tight.

The battery cover is aluminium on the inside and black on the outside.  I 
took the batteries out and gave them another wipe just for luck while I was 
in there.  The battery compartment looks clean, no sign of green or rust in 
there (although that horrid-looking little spring Oly used as a bottom 
contact bugs me).

I'm using brand-new Toshiba LR44's.

I have the feeling the problem is a dirty contact somewhere in the 
electronics.  But the fact that the spot meter does not work when the film 
has been advanced bothers me - I would have thought those two functions 
worked completely independently of each other.

Does your OM-4 spot meter work with the film advanced?

Andrew





At 02:32 PM 21/09/2004 +0200, Iwert wrote:

>Hello,
>
>three possibilities you can try:
>
>1. tighten the bottom screws of the camera firmly (especially the ones 
>near the tripod thread). 2. check if the battery cover is plain 
>aluminium and not painted (black). 3. clean the battery compartiment 
>and put in known GOOD SR44's (eveready 357's).
>
>these are the tricks that do it for me mostly... others will probably 
>follow with advice! Otherwise I can also think of dirty contacts 
>somewhere...
>
>Iwert.


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