John, if I correctly understand what you've described, the problem is that
you pressed the shutter release button after setting the self-timer.
Olympus SLRs are among the very few (only?) in which the self-timer has its
own release mechanism (a tiny tab concealed beneath the self-timer lever on
my OM-1). With most SLRs you set the self-timer, then press the shutter
release button to begin the countdown. If you do this with the OMs the
shutter will fire immediately. Every once in a while I forget this too,
since I switch between OMs and Canons.
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Lex
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From: John Hudson <xyyc@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 17:52:32 -0800
...set the 12 second shutter delay prefire lever and pressed the shutter
release thinking that I time to get into the picture before the shutter
released...
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