Mark;
Batteries, batteries. Keep some extras in your pants pocket or somewhere
warm for cold weather work. This is pretty typical behavior for the 4 (and
2S) so try the stuff in the next para before sending it in again.
To unjam it, turn the shutter speed dial to the red area - that's mechanical
shutter and it should unjam right away. (You have to push in the little tiny
tab to get the shutter ring to go to the red part.) You can keep shooting on
red 1/60 even with dead batteries, of course, no meter.
John Hermanson, who regularly posts to this list, is an Olympus trained
repair guy in NYC.
George
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Steudel
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:21 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Olympus OM-4 Cold Weather Jam
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am a new addition to the Olympus mailing list, hopefully I'm doing
> things correctly here ...
>
> I have a Olympus OM-4 that has some issues with the cold. After the
> camera is out in the cold for a while, it takes one last picture and
> then ceases to work after that. After I bring the camera down from the
> mountains, replaced the batters, it still stays jammed. The first time
> it happened I took it to a camera camera repair agent and they sent it
> to a repairer. This is the second time it's happened, and I would love
> to find out how to fix it myself, or at least what's going on. Any ideas
> out there?
>
> Also I live in Seattle washington and would love a contact for a olympus
> repair person if anyone has one.
>
> Thanks Much, Mark
>
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