I've been very happy with my Zenit EM.... You can even get more info here if
you are interested:
http://andersloberg.subnet.dk/332370.htm
However the camera has develloped a Shutter Curtain problem that needs
repair but I haven't been able to find a repair shop to take care of the
problem!
Regarding the OM-4 on Ebay I just saw this one, looks pretty good:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1257604385
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Clay" <zuiko@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] (Fwd) Olympus OM-4 on Ebay
> > ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> > From: "Kayla B. Sunrea" <forkayla@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ...and still own an old Zenit EM that I purchased about 20 years
> > ago. still works! I'm now looking for a better camera and following my
> > friend's suggestion I've narrowed my search to an Olympus OM-4.
>
>
> Always curious about cameras I haven't heard of before, I didn't really
know
> what a Zenit EM was, but found some information about it:
>
> Shutter: 1/30-1/500, B (cloth, horizontal)
> Flash: switchable X/F sync, hot shoe, sync at 1/30
> Metering: uncoupled selenium meter
> Finder: microprism spot and ground glass collar in Freshnel
> Instant return mirror
> auto diaphragm
> Self timer
> (Photo: http://anusf.anu.edu.au/~aab900/photography/cameras/zenit-em.jpg)
>
> Made by the Krasnogorsk Mechanical Factory (Krasnogorskii Mechanicheskii
> Zavod - KMZ) and at Belorussia Optico-Mechanical Factory (BelOMO). KMK
> still makes cameras http://www.zenit-foto.ru/english/start.htm
>
>
> My eBay advice would be:
> Check out the seller's rating--I look at both buying and selling
> feedback.
> If they don't list a return policy, email them and find out if you can
> return the camera if there are problems not listed in the auction
write-up.
> Email them and ask when the last time the camera was used. Did the
> prints or slides turn out okay? Does it have a light leak? Meter works.
> etc., fungus, battery corrosion, foam rot, etc. If they don't reply, skip
> the auction and find another.
>
> and my BEST eBay advice is:
> Buy one from a list member. There are some members who sell stuff from
> time-to-time. Not that people who sell on eBay are untrustworthy -- just
> that the folks on this list generally KNOW what they are selling.
>
> Question to the list:
> Aren't some of the 4's subject to battery drain? Was it just the 4's
or
> 4-T's?
>
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