My experience as well. I've found out my batteries were getting low on a couple
of ocassions waiting for the self timer to fire on my OM-4. I could go on to do
a long auto exposure, but the prefire and self timer wait seem to pull more
current. But hey, that's what spare batteries are for in the kit.
Mickey
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From: Johnsonpa@xxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Resetting an OM-4
Thanks for that info, Clinton. Apparently, all it does when you fire the
shutter is the mirror jumps up and stays there, and it beeps at you.
Sounds kinda like what some of the double-digit bodies do when they
have sticky magnets. Does the OM-4 have that kinda problems, too, or
is this maybe something else?
Chris,
I think you have the aperture pre-fire self-time set. Look on the
front of the body where the self-timer located (same as on OM-1 or OM-2).
There is a little tab that needs to be in the vertical position. While
looking at the camera with the mount and mirror facing toward you, left is
set to aperture prefire/self-time and right turns off the audible sounds of
the camera. If that batteries are low, it will just keep beeping and never
take the picture. It's my understanding that the aperture prefire is a real
battery hog. Combine it with an OM-4 that eats batteries a lot and this
happens to me too often.
HTH,
--p.j.
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