Hi Sean,
So offer 5900 yen for this yucky thing. You could ask Olympus Japan
for an estimate. Or frame it in your living room.
Tom
At 2000 June 18 - Sunday 12:02, Sean Chan <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
spoke about *[OM] M-1 in Tokyo...* saying
> Hello all,
>
> I've seen a 2nd M-1 in my life now :-). There's one available in
> MapCamera, Shinjuku, Tokyo. It's going Yen 59000 (US$556). Yes,
> I was thinking to myself "So cheap??". So I had the saleschap take
> it out to have a look. Externally, I can't see anything wrong - no
> dings, etc. The hotshoe was missing and the film door did appear to
> open larger than normal (at least more than my OM-4Ti, I haven't
> taken out my OM-1 to compare.
>
> Anyhow, when I looked through the viewfinder, there was gunk there :-(.
> I think it's fungus of some sort - as it actually has some sort of
> cell structure. It was also "curved" which leads me to think that it's
> not formed on the pentaprism, mirror, focussing screen, etc. It must
> be in the lens construction of the viewfinder itself. Making a guess
> that we have Olympus Service here in Tokyo, the previous owner must
> have tried cleaning it before - thus whatever is there, is probably
> there to stay.
>
> I know many you remember my regrets not buying the previous M-1 I
> saw in Perth (US$680) that later went onto eBay for US$950-$1000??
> However this one definitely looks as though it can't be cleaned and
> it hasn't got a Zuiko M-System 50mm F1.8 with it.
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