Yes, I service them and have a few key parts on-hand.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brokaw" <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Pen FT
| on 7/29/01 8:54 AM, Parzival Herzog at parz@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|
| > Has anyone got a PEN FT? What are they like to use?
| >
| > Are they still repairable? I.e. Are parts available?
| >
| > When a Pen FT has an OM lens adaptor, the image
| > area from the OM lens is cropped, persumably a
| > 50mm OM lens behaves like a 100mm lens. What
| > about the effective f-stop, is it one stop less?
| >
| > - Parzival
| >
|
| I got a Pen FT recently, still has the first roll of film in it. Not
having
| seen any pictures, I can only assume it is actually taking them, although
| all the functions seem to be normal. Getting twice the pictures per roll
has
| slowed me down, I may have to just burn the film to get it out.
|
| It is a joy to use, small and well-shaped. Good sounds, it reminds me of
my
| Leica in that it feels very solid, like its got no empty space inside. The
| shape fits my hands well, the controls are in the right places. It is a
| little different in that the 'natural' composition for the image is
portrait
| instead of landscape, but its easily held sideways to get the 'normal'
| layout. I have the 38/1.8 and 50-90/3.5 zoom lens.
|
| I think there are few parts available, probably not from Olympus. They can
| be repaired, although I wouldn't want just anyone working on one. I think
| John H. says "inquire" regarding repairs.
|
| The OM lenses will work as longer effective focal length when on the Pen,
| but I'm not sure if its double. It seems to me that the aperture won't be
| affected, only the image area. You'll in effect be using only the middle
| portion of the full-frame 35mm image area, but the light intensity on that
| area will be the same as if it were using the whole frame.
| --
|
| Jim Brokaw
| OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
|
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