This could be a dirty manual speed resistor (at best). If speeds are
horribly erratic, like sometimes 1/30 is good then it's 1 second, then it
just stays open, it could be a bad circuit.
If it does this after sitting for a while, then it could be an oily magnet.
John
Camtech
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/olympustech1997
R. Lee Hawkins wrote:
> Hi all (esp. John H :)
> I am finally getting around to replacing the items that were stolen from
> me, and today picked up an OM-2N in near mint (or so I thought)
> condition. After getting it home and playing with it a bit more,
> however, I find that when set to manual mode, the shutter speeds are
> longer than the set speed about 10-200f the time. Auto mode seems to
> be fine. The problem seems to occur more often right after I change the
> shutter speed dial. After taking one or two exposures, the problem
> seems to go away (although it seems to randomly come back for one of
> ever 10 or 20 exposures). Any ideas? Is it something really dumb that
> I'm missing?
>
> The vendor claims to have a 30 day warranty on used items... looks like
> I'll be testing that :)
>
> Cheers,
> --Lee
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