The casting number is, well, in the casting. You have to take the bottom
cover off to see it. I didn't want to mention it at first, so people
wouldn't start taking their cameras apart. Doesn't matter really.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "rtomcala" <rtomcala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM2 problems
| Gotcha on that one p.j.,
| I got mine when they first came out, it has a s/n of 1146xx. No
| letter "A" and it (on the outside anyway), never had a "MD" label
| designator on the front either. It's still going strong too! Like
| p.j., Thank you John.
| A while back, I had a 2, a 2n, and was getting a mint 2s. I didn't
| feel the need for both the 2 and the 2n, I gave up the 2n. I really
| like the looong auto exposure ability of the 2 rather than the shortened
| one on the 2n.
| I'm still having a difficult time changing over to the 2s and the 4T
| because the 2 is so comfortable.
| It served me aboard submarines and was "The" camera for periscope
| photography as long as I had that job. It has taken pictures around the
| world as well as many hundreds of mainly Russian warships and intel
| ships. I also used it for periscope underwater hull photography.
| During that time, there was absolutely nothing to compare with it's OTF
| exposure.
| Rand E.
|
|
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| I have found that 100,000 (where production started) through 200,000
| need
| the most work. The oldest of these have the letter "A" cast into the
| body
| near the md switch under the bottom cover.
|
|
|
| WOW!!! I have three samples of the OM-2. My original OM that my father
| gave
| me is numbered 136105. I would consider that a pretty early number
| considering I have another OM-2 around 364000 and it is still the
| center-weighted version. It's kind of strange to think that the camera
| is
| older than I am (by a few months probably) and, thanks to John H, still
| taking great pictures!
| Anybody have a lower numbered OM-2?
|
| --p.j.
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