Could be 2 things. Good would be curtain speeds are off, so at high speeds,
the slit is closing on one side. That's just an adjustment. Bad would be
that the second shutter curtain has jumped out of position by a few teeth
and now sits just a tad in the film aperture. Big job. Here's a simple
test: open back and hold shutter open on B. Look at film plane where
curtains are. It is possible that the bar for the second curtain is showing
just a little on the right hand end.
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY, 11743-4714,
631-424-2121, www.zuiko.com
Olympus OM Service since 1977
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Mitchell" <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus-list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:10 AM
Subject: [OM] Back on-list, and a question
> I've been off-list for a year or so, during which time I've been
> mostly playing around with digital shots [1] but now I'm going to be
> travelling again, I want to get take film shots because while shooting
> digital is fun and all, the quality isn't the same, and I miss decent
> DOF control at times. (unless I go for an E1 or something, which is a
> bit spendy).
>
> (nice to see all the same old "faces" still here..)
>
> Question: I have an OM2S which works fine most of the time, but which
> tends to leave dark portions on the left-hand side of the image on
> occasions, because the curtain sync is off or something. I took it to a
> local repair place, and they quoted me $250 (~US$200) to fix it, which
> seems reasonable given how much fiddling around there is involved and
> apparently OM2S's are more complicated internally than most, but it's
> still a fair bit of money.
>
> The thing that I'm wondering about is that KEH/Adorama/B&H have a few
> 'bargain' OM2S's floating around for quite a lot less than it'd cost me
> to get it fixed -- now, I realise that getting it serviced leaves me
> with a guaranteed-to-be-working camera -vs- the risk of buying a
> replacement that may have its own issues, but it's an interesting
> prospect.
>
> What's _more_ tempting is that there's OM4T's on sale for not an awful
> lot more than it'd cost me to get the OM2S fixed up -- and that would be
> a definite move up the ladder..
>
> Any thoughts? What does an OM4T get me above an OM2S? I know there's
> more sophisticated metering options, but I can keep track of spot
> readings in my head fairly well as it is, and the shadow/light buttons
> aren't critical either. Build quality?
>
> -- dan
>
>
> [1] Coolpix 4500 -- I went away from OM because I wanted the split-body
> option, and I wanted the macro abilities, and that was the only camera
> that'd do that.
>
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