At 22:37 1/18/00 , Skip Williams wrote:
>curtain (so you could see the black/white pattern), and proceeded to emit
>a squeal similar to the battery check sound, but more garbled. I could get
>it to stop by moving the SS dial to the red 1/60 speed. The mirror would
>then come down.
*Exactly* what happened to me Christmas '98 in weather hovering around Zero
F with the OM-4 on a tripod for about an hour. New batteries revived it.
Regardless of weather condx this is the "yer batteries are shot" behavior
of my OM-4. New batteries will also return the mirror. First time it
happened to me (well before Christmas '98) it scared the daylights out of me.
-- John
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