Does your daughter drive yet? If so, please inform
the list where, when, and what kind of car to look out
for because by the time we see that battered OM40
swinging wildly from thr rearview mirror it'll be too
late! <g> John Robison
--- WKato@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Some people had knocked the OM-F and its thin metal
> sheath over
> polycarbonate. But this is the camera I lent to my
> daughter for 2 years of
> high school photography and I think it was a wise
> choice. The first time she
> swung it so hard against a brick wall that the
> plastic shroud on the bottom
> of the mirror box flew off and was rubbing against
> the aperture mechanism,
> causing erroneous exposures. The next time she
> dropped it onto a sidewalk and
> bent the heck out of the Vivitar UV filter that was
> on there. Just today she
> opened her car door and it fell to the pavement and
> the mirror came unglued.
> I superglued it back on tonite. Do I think that the
> adjustment may be off? I
> think it will serve its purpose. The reason I used
> superglue was because it
> goes on very thin and is strong. Hopefully it will
> approximate the original
> mirror angle and setting. Today she also dropped my
> OM-77 with 28-70 Sigma.
> There is a metal surround over the focusing
> mechanism that got a bit of a
> dent in it stopping focusing. I managed to unscrew
> it and a few bangs with my
> hammer and its working almost as good a new.
>
> I had some of my camera laid out and she tried each
> one, OM-1, OM-2S, OM-3,
> and OM-4T. She like the OM-3 the best for some
> reason. I retorted with what I
> had learned in drug education, "NO".
>
> Warren
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