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Re: [OM] Newcomer questions...

Subject: Re: [OM] Newcomer questions...
From: John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:22:35 -0500
Tokyo stopped production of the MD caps (chrome CA9451, black CA9471) long ago,
and Olympus America ran out of their supply atleast 6 months ago.

John
Camtech

Kennedy wrote:

> In article , Julian Mattay <Julian.Mattay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >>On the way home today I stopped at a hole in the wall store that always
> >>seems to have a lot of manual stuff.  They had an OM-1 in nice condition,
> >>no hot shoe, except it was missing what appeared to be a winder cover (next
> >>to the battery cover) and they had no lenses for it, preventing me from
> >
> >G'day Readers,
> >
> >I remember reading/hearing somewhere (very vague recollection) that light can
> >infiltrate in to the film area if the winder connection hole on OM-1's is not
> >covered.
> >Can anyone confirm or rebut this?
> >
> There was certainly a warning about this in the manuals of both the OM-1
> and OM-2, but I ran some tests on my OM-1 back in the mid-70's and had
> no sign of fogging through the socket - despite firing a flashgun
> directly into the open MD socket a few times!  It could just be caution
> on Olympus part, or I might have been lucky with the camera I had - it
> was one of the first production MD capable cameras, before they thought
> of putting MD plates on to distinguish between them.  Either way its
> worth replacing the cap to prevent the ingress of dirt and dust which
> will just gum up the works.
>
> To the original poster - Olympus supplied me with a pack of 4 MD socket
> caps free of charge after I lost one from my OM-2 (that didn't show
> light-leaking signs either, but I didn't test it as well as the OM-1).
> It might be worth giving them a call to see if they will still offer
> this sort of service.
>
> --
> Kennedy
> Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
> A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
> Python Philosophers         (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)
>
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