If you're lucky, you can sometimes attach a motor
drive/winder and get these to come back right.
Joel W.
Quoting Chris Buckett <chrisbuckett@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Hate to say it but my OM4T's in for repair with the same
> problem -
> £260 quid from camera-clinic in London. I feel lost!
> I took a photo, wound it on, and then the shutter release
> seemed to
> lock and then no powering up apart from the battery
> test.
>
> Chris.
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:06:20 +0100 (BST), James Michael
> King
> <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, iwert wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > James,
> > >
> > > This sounds like "overwound"...
> > >
> > > You can try opening the bottom and fiddling around,
> but a CLA would be more
> > > appropriate.
> > >
> > > Iwert.
> >
> > OUCH sounds PAINFUL! is this common?
> > I did open up the bottom to have a look at the
> mechanics but it looked
> > COMPLICATED.
> >
> > >> *cry*
> > >> *HELP*
> > >>
> > >> my om3 has a problem....
> > >>
> > >> last night I pressed the shutter, wound the film on
> and then found I could
> > >> not depress the shutter button enough to take
> another shoot. I
> > >> tried using a little force to see if I could turn
> the wind on crank more.
> > > No it was
> > >> not going any further... I pressed the R button and
> wound the film back
> > >> into
> > >> the cartridge and opened up the back. The curtain is
> in place and the
> > >> mirror is down. The metering seems fine and the
> battery test passes.
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