Hi Wayne.
I have described my (simple) solution to this problem on this list, I
guess about three years ago. No filing needed, but a reversible
modification (not voiding the warranty).
Quote:
: Hello all, in particular John H. and Tomoko Y.
:
: I made the modification needed to have the shutter being no longer
: blocked by the winder switch in rest position.
: I have never made any modification this easy, and what is more
: important (warranty!) it is completely reversible.
:
: You only need to deassemble the winder switch (by unscrewing the tiny
: Phillips screw on the downside of the handle) and taking temporarily
: away the next three parts lying around its axis.
: Then the blocking ring is lying on top and the only thing I did was
: turn it upside down, making sure that the little protuberance in the
: ring which would normally shift under the shutter points to the back
: rather than to the front (maybe I should say to eight o'clock instead
: of ten o'clock)
: After that you can reassemble the winder switch exactly as it was
: before. The little protuberance now lies almost exactly under the
: winder handle.
: All it took was exactly three minutes... and now the OM2000 is free of
: the annoying Nikon inherited eye-threatener. And it still has twelve
: months of warranty - I didn't even have to open the camera body.
:
: Frank van Lindert
: Utrecht NL.
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:32:05 -0400, Wayne Culberson
<waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Well, I just came back in the house from grabbing a few pics of a couple
>of deer in the graveyard across the road. The graveyard sits on a steep
>little mound covered with huge hardwood trees, and everything is covered
>in snow. With the early morning sun filtering through it is really
>something else.
>Because it is about 10 below centigrade (other OM's die in the cold),
>and I needed to use a 200mm lens and still have 1/250 or more, I grabbed
>the all mechanical Om2000, which I have loaded with 160NC. It worked
>perfectly in the cold, and the spot metering is really nice when trying
>to meter against the snow in that kind of lighting. Of course I don't
>know yet what I got.
>But there is one aggravating problem, the shutter lock! Has anyone tried
>filing off that piece that hooks into the shutter button, so that one
>can release the thing without the wind lever sticking in your face? Or
>is it more complicated than that? Wayne
>
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