On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:40:24 -0800, Winsor wrote:
>The vaunted reliability of circuits is belied by anecdotes
>concerning failure in cold, humidity, wet, physical failure of
>earlier rigid circuit boards, battery eating behavior of some OM2S,
>OM3, and OM4 models and LCD failure. It seems that super electronic
>reliability is always here with the latest development with only
>optimism to underwrite it and somehow the argument that it is the
>pots that cause all the problems smacks of this. In the meantime
>mechanical cameras just keep on clicking. Sorry for the skepticism.
>(Love to use my OM4T, but do I trust it? Hmm.)
Amen to that. Clockwork reigns supreme. If I took any camera(s) to the
"ends of the earth" they would be my trusty (1976) OM1 and OM1n. Maybe
the Bronica ETRSi, too.
*And* I've spent a lifetime in electronics.
Regards
John Gruffydd (Mold, Wales, UK)
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