Hi John,
Thanks for your input. I did remove the screen when I gave the camera a good
blow out and I was very careful to check that the screen was in place.
Whatever the problem was it seems to be cured and I encountered no problems
today.
--Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Focus problem
>
> Maybe your focus screen was partially unlatched. I've seen a few Beattie
> screens where the tab was in the wrong place so you ended up mounting
> the screen upside down. That would throw focus off with all lenses all
> the time. If mirror angle has changed that would affect infinity focus
> with all lenses (sharp in finder, focus scale way off, infinity comes in
> early or not at all) would be out of focus on film.
>
>
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>
> 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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