The Cosina is a Nikon FM10. I think that all the manual wind Nikons
used a pull out the wind lever to turn on the meter mechanism. Not
sure whether the mechanism is similar, but I doubt it, but maybe. The
F6 is the only remaining Nikon film camera. The FM 10 is still being
sold in some markets.
So does the modification leave the camera on all the time?
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Feb 18, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I've lost track of the Cosina built Nikon model number that is similar
> to the OM-2000 but... is that poke in the eye the same one
> administered
> by the OM-2000? If so it's easily remedied with a screwdriver. Frank
> van Lindert posted the fix and it was repeated here by Keith Berry
> on 30
> July, 1999 which I will quote here:
>
> "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"
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Winsor Crosby wrote:
>> When I shifted to Nikon for digital before the E-1 appeared it would
>> ever come out I was duly impressed with the thoughtful, photographer
>> oriented features and ergonomics. That was true of the OM cameras
>> too, but they just did not continue to refine them and to issue the
>> new models needed to get the press that would help them sell. The FA,
>> FM and FE models were reasonably sized too. Unfortunately the wind
>> lever switch was a poke in the eye for us left eyed people. The
>> brightest viewfinder I ever saw was an FM which has one of those
>> clear nonfocusing screens with just a split image/microprism doughnut
>> in the middle. If I did not value the ground glass for focus in some
>> instances I would have switched to one in my OM4. Amazingly bright.
>
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