The A/M switch on the main circuit is probably not making proper contact, or
wire switches are contacting the auto / manual posts at the same time. If it
is an older OM-2 (like serial number below 250,000) then it probably suffers
from old style switches which are not gold plated. It's hit and miss,
problem could be something else, but you do have a problem.
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane,
Huntington, NY, 11743-4714,
631-424-2121, www.zuiko.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando Gonzalez Gentile" <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Auto failure only; on OM 2.
> on 15/07/2004 12:51, John Hermanson at omtech@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Of course, on auto, film must be loaded and a lens mounted for shutter
speed
> > in finder to be even remotely accurate.
> Hi John,
>
> A piece of undeveloped film is at film plane, not a full roll of it.
> And yes, I forgot to mention it before, a G. Zuiko 1.4 was mounted each
time
> failure was detected.
> Most of the time it seems to shutter accurately, but one out of twenty
shots
> it fails very noticeably. Then it keeps failing once or thrice again
before
> returning to apparent accuracy.
> I'm not sure about this last observation: failure would be most probably
> occuring when switching lever from Manual to Auto.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fernando.
>
>
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