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Re: [OM] Stuck at home in Pennsylvania

Subject: Re: [OM] Stuck at home in Pennsylvania
From: DONALD HOLBROOK <donholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 17:58:36 -0400 (EDT)
Upgraded firmware---works perfectly.

> On April 11, 2020 at 3:42 PM Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: DONALD HOLBROOK <donholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I ran across a near-new E-300 recently so I'm using it with a 50-200,  
> > Camera will not recognize the SWD version.
> 
> That is very odd. I'm sure my E-300 works fine with my 50-200 SWD.
> 
> Yup. Just tried it.
> 
> I didn't actually download the photos to make sure the EXIF info was right, 
> but by pressing the view button and then the info button, I can say that the 
> camera is setting and reading back the aperture from the lens, at least.
> 
> Do you know that both the camera and the lens have the latest firmware? Have 
> you used this lens successfully on a different body, and vice-versa?
> 
> Another possibility is dirty contacts. You can gently burnish them with a 
> pencil eraser, being careful not to get any eraser bits into the lens.
> 
> Yet another possibility is that there is some obstruction that keeps the 
> lens-locking pin from extending fully into the lens mount. That is a common 
> problem on micro 4/3rds; not sure it applies to the E-300.
> 
> I think something is wrong somewhere.
> 
> :::: The model American male devotes more than 1,600 hours a year to his car. 
> He sits in it while it goes and while it stands idling. He parks it and 
> searches for it. He earns the money to put down on it and to meet the monthly 
> instalments. He works to pay for gasoline, tolls, insurance, taxes, and 
> tickets. He spends four of his sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering 
> his resources for it. And this figure does not take into account the time 
> consumed by other activities dictated by transport: time spent in hospitals, 
> traffic courts, and garages; time spent watching automobile commercials or 
> attending consumer education meetings to improve the quality of the next buy. 
> The model American puts in 1,600 hours to get 7,500 miles: less than five 
> miles per hour. In countries deprived of a transportation industry, people 
> manage to do the same, walking wherever they want to go, and they allocate 
> only 3 to 8 per cent of their society’s time budget to traffic instead of 28 
> per cent. What distinguishes the traffic in rich countries from the traffic 
> in poor countries is not more mileage per hour of life-time for the majority, 
> but more hours of compulsory consumption of high doses of energy, packaged 
> and unequally distributed by the transportation industry. -- Ivan Illich 
> <http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Ivan+Illich> ::::
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
> 
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