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Subject: [OM] Re: Focus problem
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:19:20 -0400
You said you "put **a** lens on it" and a "couple of other lenses". 
What about the original offenders?  Did they check out too?

Chuck Norcutt

GeeBee wrote:

> Out shooting with OM2 SP today I noticed when using the Zuiko 180mm for a 
> landscape shot that it didn't quite rack out to infinity when I focussed on 
> a distant church. It was only just short of infinity so I disregarded it. 
> Next shot was with the 35- 80 zoom and a boat in the foreground was about 75 
> ft away. When I checked the focus scale on the lens it was showing 12ft. 
> Despite this the boat was in sharp focus in the veiwfinder. I switched 
> lenses and the same thing happened with the 50mm. Ground glass image in 
> focus but the scale on the lens indicated much closer than the object 
> actuallt was.
> 
> I was resigned to a repair job so I pulled the film and loaded into another 
> body when I returned home. I removed the focus screen from the offending OM2 
> and looked for any obvious signs trouble but was unable to detect anything. 
> I gave the camera a good blowing out with a brush, put a lens on it and 
> focussed out of the window on an object that I would expect to be at 
> infinity. The lens scale confirmed it and racked out all the way to the 
> infinity symbol. Tried a couple of other lenses and all is working well. 
> Anyone have any ideas on what the problem might have been?
> 
> --Graham 
> 
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