Bernhard Frei eruditely baffled :
>- - Body should be rain resistant (have never tested my OM4Ti so
far...)
Well, my OM-1 survived quite a few shots in the rain, allthough it
wasn't raining THAT hard at the time. Also, with a 300mm f5.6 from
Tamron on it, it survived a 2m drop. It landed on one of the front
edges of the lens. I noticed 2 things afterwards : a dent in the sun
cap and a small problem with the 5.6 diaphragm if you tighten the
OM-specific fitting too tight. When I tell this to somebody with an
all-plastic, 130 grams, 17 LCD display, 4 easy-to-use-finger-dials C***n
or M*****a owner, the reaction is invariably "*Gasp* no wonder, you've
got a metal prison to protect it !"
I may have described this before, but I read a heavy duty test of the
OM-4Ti that included a night in the fridge (at -20 Celsius), 2 hours in
the oven (at 75 Celsius), half an hour in the exhaust of a high-pressure
sand canon, half an hour in a shaking machine, ... all with an MD-2 and
(I believe) a 50mm/f1.8. It survived, of course, and ended the test
with a score 1 point below a Leica.
Are there other wild stories ? OM-4's with 250/f2 falling of the empire
state building (and surviving) ? Alligators running of with your
precious OM-2n only to bring it back with a roll of cute family pictures
?
Peter.
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