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Subject: [OM] Re: Two versions of the OM 2?
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:42:26 -0400
That's really not too bad Chuck.  I think you put alot more thought into 
it than most would.

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Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I scratched my M*n*lt* SRT-101 mirror the same way.  A friend of my 
> father's gave it to him years ago and it was passed on to me.  I had it 
> sitting around in its case for another bunch of years.  I decided to 
> check it out one day and somehow in handling it I turned the mirror lock 
> lever without realizing it and locked the mirror up.  I didn't realize 
> it because I was so unfamiliar with the camera I didn't know it had a 
> mirror lock.  I then dry fired it once and realized the mirror hadn't 
> come down.  On removing the lens I noticed the apparently original 
> mirror foam was getting gooey and suspected the mirror had gotten stuck 
> in the goo.  I carefully slid a little knife blade between the mirror 
> and gummy foam and soon realized that gummy foam was not the problem. 
> Only then did the brain turn on and ask whether this contemporary of an 
> OM-1 had a mirror lock-up lever.  Sure enough it did and I had flipped 
> it up somehow.  Presto.  Mirror drops down immediately upon releasing 
> said lever.  Sadly, I realized that my very careful knife insertion had 
> left a fine scratch near the bottom edge of the previously pristine 
> mirror.  Too late smart.  I felt like a stupid idiot.
> 
> Anyhow, the 58mm f/1.2 is still in fine condition... I think.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> Moose wrote:
> 
> 


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