Yes, but it makes for a heartening, Disney-like story Jaime ;-). Well
done "keeping the faith" with the OM4.
Chris
On 25 Nov 2004, at 5:10, Jaime Garmendia wrote:
>
> If it makes you feel a bit better, you are not the only one. My OM4,
> bought new in Philly's Center City Camera somewhere around 1986,
> worked fine for a few years, and suddenly around 1989 started locking
> up and eating batteries. In early 1990 it got a full CLA through
> Wolf's Photo in Atlanta (at the time I was living in Chattanooga).
> When the camera came back, I asked the clerk "how do I know it is
> fixed?". He pulled out a piece of masking tape, wrote down the days
> date, and stuck it on the bottom plate - then took a double-height
> alkaline battery out of the blister pack and put it in. He said "if it
> dies in less than a couple of weeks, bring the camera back". So away I
> went, thinking all was right, only to discover the battery was dead
> and the camera locked up in just two days. I took a 3 year assignment
> to Buenos Aires right after that, so I never had a chance to go back.
> The camera ended up in storage in the US, and when I came back I put a
> pair of LR44's in, with the same result. So back to the closet it
> went...until about 2 months ago, after reading the battery tales of
> woe from people in this list, I got a couple of 357 at the nearby WM,
> stuck them in,,,and it came back to life!... and so far, so good,
> still the same cells in, still working!....my poor camera, relegated
> to a dark and dusty corner for 14 years, because of using the wrong
> battery. Talk about a thick-headed owner!
>
> It must be the Olympus equivalent of the "Count of Montecristo", and I
> think that will be the OM4's new moniker....
>
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C M I Barker
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