Olympus switched to plastic 3 screw bottom covers early in production. Later
came Type II OM-10s (above serial number 2,000,000) which has a modular metal
shafted shutter mechanism. The curtain shafts in the original 10 are some kinda
high tech plastic. This is one reason the 10 is made so the motor drive will
not function on it. Doing so would melt the shutter shafts (we tried it).
These improvements were all put into the OM-G, though the OM-10 was not
discontinued when the G came out.
John
Wayne Harridge wrote:
> Shawn,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shawn Wright [SMTP:swright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 3:16 PM
> > To: Olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [OM] OM-10 fix up tips
> >
> >
> > It appears there are many changes on the OM-10 between these two
> > models, with the newer one appearing better in all cases except one: the
> > bottom plate is plastic; the old one is metal.
> > The newer OM-10 also has a noticeably larger mirror.
> >
> >
> What are the serial numbers of these 2, I didn't realise there were
> any significant changes made in the OM-10. I would like to check mine out
> to see where it fits.
>
> ...Wayne
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