This camera probably has greasy latches. The wind gears are allowed to
go around a second time, as if they are trying to wind the shutter, but
shutter is already wound. Shutter is trying to fire but is being held
in place by the out of position wind gears. The speckled curtain is the
first curtain. This shows that mirror has gone up but curtain could not
move.
Rebuilding involves drilling out an assembly that is stamped shut at the
factory.
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Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
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Darin wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Here's what happened. I took the camera with me on a hike yeaterday,
> I have a motordrive on this camera, so the film was already advanced,
> when I tried to take a photo the shutter did not release, and the
> motordrive attempted to advance the film, but could not. The film
> advance lever does not move. I pressed the rewind release button and
> carefully rewound the film, so as not to pull the film completely
> back into its canister, then opened the camera back. Everything
> appeared to be ok, so I removed the lens and the mirror is now in the
> up position (it must have gone up when I opened the back to remove
> the film, because it was down before that). When I move the mode
> selector lever to battery check, with a lens or body cap in place
> there is no audible or visual signal. Without a lens or body cap,
> both are constant for a second or two, then they pulse. I replaced
> the batteries, but nothing changed. Also, the viewfinder light is not
> working, and turning the shutter speed ring to the red 60 has no
> effect . This camera was 100% functional the last time I used it,
> just three days ago.
>
> A couple questions. I seem to remember reading something here on the
> list about a way to reset the OM-2s. If this is possible, how is it
> done and do you think it would work in this situation?
>
>> From the lens side the shutter curtain is black and grey checked,
>> is this what it should look like when it is cocked?
>
> Should the battery check signal be continuos if the batteries are
> good, or is the pulsing signal normal?
>
> Thanks in advance, Darin
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