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Subject: [OM] Looseness in bayonet mount?
From: "Curtis P. Hedman" <Curtis.P.Hedman-1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 18:51:42 -0500
Another techie question.... I just noticed that one of my lenses (Tokina 50-250 zoom) seems to have a fair amount of angular play in the lens mount. That is, when bayonetted into my OM4T, after the latch clicks, there seems to be several degrees of before the lens hits the mount stop. I can wiggle the lens back and forth between the hard stop and the locking pin. The lens is solid perpendicular to the mount (no wobble). My questions are: how much play is "normal" or in spec, is there any problem with this slight amount of play, and, if so, is it something easily correctable via a normal CLA? I would think that there might be a small error in the lens aperture information coupled into the metering circuit - not a problem with ttl auto, but could it give a poor exposure in spot mode? Any thoughts or hard data will be appreciated!

Curt Hedman


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