Nice trick. But it would only have the warranty because no one can tell
it had been taken apart, right?
John
Frank van Lindert wrote:
> Hello all, in particular John H. and Tomoko Y.
>
> I made the modification needed to have the shutter being no longer
> blocked by the winder switch in rest position.
> I have never made any modification this easy, and what is more
> important (warranty!) it is completely reversible.
>
> You only need to deassemble the winder switch (by unscrewing the tiny
> Phillips screw on the downside of the handle) and taking temporarily
> away the next three parts lying around its axis.
> Then the blocking ring is lying on top and the only thing I did was
> turn it upside down, making sure that the little protuberance in the
> ring which would normally shift under the shutter points to the back
> rather than to the front (maybe I should say to eight o'clock instead
> of ten o'clock)
> After that you can reassemble the winder switch exactly as it was
> before. The little protuberance now lies almost exactly under the
> winder handle.
> All it took was exactly three minutes... and now the OM2000 is free of
> the annoying Nikon inherited eye-threatener. And it still has twelve
> months of warranty - I didn't even have to open the camera body.
>
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht NL.
>
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