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Re: [OM] Question: Early OM-1?

Subject: Re: [OM] Question: Early OM-1?
From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:33:25 -0500
>
> Well, Lee's estimable website is missing one detail. The code on the camera
> back tells you only the date of manufacture of the back itself.  The back
> (and the baseplate carrying the serial number) is freely interchangeable
> between all single-digit OM bodies, so it would be entirely possible for an
> OM-3Ti to have a back indicating manufacture in 1973 - that would have to
> be
> a Wyoming-plant prototype!
>


Later bodies have the date code in the film chamber.

My OM-3Ti had to go to the Wyoming plant for modification.  The back wasn't
closing right so I swapped it with the one from my OM-2S.

OH, THE HUMANITY!!!!!

AG
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