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Re: [OM] To OM2000 or not to OM2000

Subject: Re: [OM] To OM2000 or not to OM2000
From: Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:47:04 -0500
Geeshh.  Tempus fugit.

Joel W.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:56 PM, 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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