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Re: [OM] Automatic exposure problems

Subject: Re: [OM] Automatic exposure problems
From: John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:23:15 -0500
Your 2N could have oily magnet but it may be a  combination of things.
Could also be a bad circuit.   If you are interested, I service them, and
have extensively since `1977.

John
Camtech
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/olympustech1997

Stephen D. Goss wrote:

> Help!
> My OM2n seems to be overexposing.  It started out that it was just
> on shots I took outdoors, and it was controllable by dialing in one
> stop or so of underexposure.  But the last two rolls (slides) that
> came back vary from a bit overexposed to totally washed out, even
> the flash pictures.  It's not just the flash overpowering a
> foreground subject, the whole frame is overexposed.  The strange
> thing is that two or three of the shots on each roll look ok.  Plus,
> I took a short roll of print film, and it seemed to come out ok.  I
> guess they managed to resurrect it while printing.  I guess my main
> question is whether this could be a problem with the camera, or
> whether it's a problem with that big lump behind it.  Does the 2n
> suffer from oily magnets?
>
> --
> Steve Goss, Dallas Texas, usa
> sdg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://sdf.lonestar.org/~sdg/index.html
> I had to quit the rodeo circuit because I got bronc-itis.
>
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