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Re: [OM] To OM2000 or not to OM2000

Subject: Re: [OM] To OM2000 or not to OM2000
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:07:32 +1000
Yep, it's an easy mod.  I did it to an OM-2000 and also a Bessa-L which has an 
identical mechanism.

...Wayne


> Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>  From 10 years back:
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:09:01 +0100
> From: "Keith (R.K.) Berry" <keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] OM2000 -- impressions
> 
> Joel wrote:
>  >... this winder lever configuration makes the camera really 
> problematic
>  >for left-eyed shooters, and if you're one of those, I'd just say 
> forget
>  >this camera.  But even for right-eyed shooters, I find the winder 
> lever >a nuisance for verticals because the lever bumps the forehead...
> 
> Hello Joel,
>  >From Frank van Lindert's posting some time ago, you don't have to put 
> up with this winder problem. In case you missed it I'll copy it below 
> from my 'archives'
> 
> Regards,
> Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
> keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> "I made the modification needed to have the shutter being no longer 
> blocked by the winder switch in rest position. I have never made any 
> modification this easy, and what is more important it is completely 
> reversible. You only need to dissemble the winder switch (by unscrewing 
> the tiny Phillips screw on the underneath of the handle) and taking 
> temporarily away the next three parts sitting around its axis. Then the 
> blocking ring is visible on top and the only thing I did was turn it 
> upside down, making sure that the little protuberance in the ring which 
> would normally shift under the shutter points to the back rather than to 
> 
> the front (maybe I should say to eight o?clock instead of ten o?clock). 
> After that you can reassemble the winder switch exactly as it was 
> before. The little protuberance now lies almost exactly under the winder 
> 
> handle. All it took was exactly three minutes... and now the OM2000 is 
> free of the annoying Nikon inherited eye-threatener. And it still has 
> twelve months of warranty - I didn?t even have to open the camera
> body." (Frank van Lindert)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > 
> > For left-eyed shooters (which I was convinced at one point was every
> > other Olympus shooter), the OM2000 needs a little modification to
> > allow the shutter to work without the lever being half-cocked, poking
> > said shooter in his southpaw forehead.  Frank VL figured that out and
> > I think the procedure he wrote up is out there somewhere.
> > 
> > Joel W.
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...Wayne

Wayne Harridge

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