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[OM] Re: OM-2000 winder lever fix, was: honest vendors and feedback

Subject: [OM] Re: OM-2000 winder lever fix, was: honest vendors and feedback
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:58:02 +1200
Hi Chuck,

Thanks very much for the info. Even I should be able to do that fix.
And many thanks to Frank for the original adventure !!

Brian

Date sent:              Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:27:52 -0400
From:                   Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:                     "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject:                [OM] OM-2000 winder lever fix, was:  honest vendors and 
feedback

> Brian lamented:
> The camera is very lightweight. I'm looking forward to trying it out. 
> The only real negative for me is that to turn on the meter and to enable 
> shutter release, the film transport lever has to be pulled out from the 
> body a little.  Since I use my left eye for viewing, this means that it 
> pokes into my face.
> -------------------------
> 
> Getting rid of the eye poking annoyance of the OM-2000 winder lever
>  From an original posting by Frank Van Lindert:
> 
> "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 it is completely 
> reversible. You only need to dissemble the winder switch (by unscrewing 
> the tiny Phillips screw on the underneath of the handle) and taking 
> temporarily away the next three parts sitting around its axis. Then the 
> blocking ring is visible 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)
> 
> 
> 


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