As many other people have said by now, your 10 suffers from oily magnet. If
you fire it really fast for a while, speed will get better but will probably
still be off 5-10 stops. Then let it sit and it will quickly go back to
it's original very slow condition. Manual adapter has nothing to do with
it.
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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From: <orava@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 4:37 AM
Subject: [OM] OM-10 and false shutter speeds
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I have an OM-10 as my second film body and I use it quite rarely.
> Yesterday when
> I took it from the closet for the first since august I found out that the
> shutter speeds where not right.
>
> I have manual adapter in my OM-10. At first the times where just insane.
> For
> example 1/500 setting opened the shutter for at least 1/2 seconds! And
> 1/30
> setting gave me about 1/250 second shutter speed. (I didn't have film in
> the
> camera so I shot many shot with different shutter speed settings.)
>
> After a short while (about 25 shots) the shutter speeds seemed to get to
> normal
> again. Now I am wondering what was wrong with my camera? Could it be that
> the
> electronic components (are they resistors in english? The quantity should
> be
> "ohm") in manual adapter couldn't get a good contact? As I said, the body
> had
> layed in the closet for more than 6 months unused... After I played with
> the
> manual adapter the contacts might have become clean again? Does this sound
> as a
> reasonable explanation or should I we worried that there is something
> wrong with
> the body, and not in the manual adapter?
>
> I have an another manual adapter but I couldn't test how the camera had
> worked
> with that one, because I have attached the adapter to the body with glue.
> I did
> this because I lost one adapter after it had fallen in the woods... This
> leads
> to another question also: What chemical should I use to get that glue to
> let go
> from the body and from the manual adapter? The adapter is glued with few
> drops
> of strong and very fast drying glue.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Olli
>
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