Volkhart Baumgaertner wrote:
>
> Yo,
>
> on Fri, 04 Feb 2000 08:04:55 +0100, Emil Pozar wrote:
>
> >> OM-10 prefires mirror and aperture on self timer.
> >
> >
> >Mine had not :-((
>
> Mine sure does; I just checked again (I knew about the mirror, but wasn't
> sure about the aperture). However, the mirror only goes about half way up
> while the self-timer does its thing; it only moves the rest of the way when
> the camera actually fires. I wonder why it does not go up all the way in the
> first place, but I guess Oly must have had _some_ reason for it. Does the
> mirror act the same way in a 4 / 4T? My 4 is at John's for CLA, so I can't
> check right now.
Olympus made a "proper" MLU only for their pro range of cameras.
IMO, flipping the mirror only a half way up is just a little bit better
that doing nothing at all. Olympus had been doing that deliberately.
--
Regards,
Emil Pozar
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http://www.geocities.com/photoemil
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