on 15/06/2003 12:41, Tom Scales at tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Compare it to a Wunderbrick :)
LOLOLOLOL ;))
> but the percentage of failures in
> the OM-4 that I see are just too high.
That's what my highly respected repairman in Mvdeo told me (he and his two
sons are lifetime specialists in Wunderbricks and like Olys very much, as
paradoxical it might sound). He didn't know of the Ti's or the new circuit
boards because he was never asked to repair one. The same rules for the
plain 4s that don't fail.
> If it doesn't have a new circuit, I
> won't buy it.
I won't. Immagine trying to repair one in Mvdeo, when Olympus announced they
will discontinue the series.
Thanks for the tip on the beep test, Tom.
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on 15/06/2003 11:59, Garth Wood at garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I think the OM-4 has an undeservedly bad rep. If you get a good price for
> it, buy it. If you don't want it and the price is good, consider hooking
> me up.
I can't risk with a bad reputation, even undeserved, here in Mvdeo.
And I wont persecute anyone to hook him up, or hang him up, or anything as
sadic. (pun intended, I understood you meant something different)
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on 15/06/2003 12:13, Walt Wayman at hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> A pair of
> silver 357s last, on average, six to eight months. And I don't
> set to the red "B" when I put one away.
Wow... a pair of 357s on my 2 last two to four years. I change them when I'm
merely afraid they might have drained or leaked, whatever the red diode
tells me. The replaced ones usually go to a Casio LCD calc/watch, which is
On all the time. It works for a year avrg.
> At about 70 cents per
> 357, that's pretty inconsequential.
Monetarilly [spelling?] speaking, it is inconsequential even in Uruguay.
Ecologically speaking, this is another story.
Photographically speaking, this would mean to buy an OM1/3 to shoot star
trails.
> They work perfectly, and they have been used and sometimes
> abused. Like they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
You bought them new, so you know their history.
Thanks all,
Fernando
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