I've given up on repairing several PC s for the second reason. Camera will
sit for 7 weeks, batteries won't drain or go dead on their own. Camera will
fire fine on auto, manual or program, HUNDREDS of times . Then one time you
fire the shutter and it locks open, will not close unless you take batteries
out.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Stratton" <cstrat@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:07 AM
Subject: RE: [OM] Problem with OM PC
| I sent a reply to this last night via my Yahoo email account, but it
doesn't
| seem to have made it to the list, so I'll try here from home.
|
| Your OM-PC problems are probably one of two maladies. The repairable
| malady is the least common I think.
|
| 1. Repairable: Oily shutter magnet. Doesn't happen as often as with the
OM10
| by any means, but I have heard that it occurs. If your shutter is
'sluggish'
| after the body has sat for awhile, but seems to get better after a few
| exposures, this may well be the problem. It is not too difficult to
repair.
|
| 2. Non-repairable: The dreaded 'Degenerative Circuit Disease' (a phrase
| coined by the Doris Fang of OM list legend). A common manifestation of
this
| one is that the shutter locks up if asked to make an exposure of longer
than
| some threshold which seems to be dependent on the severity of the
| disease, and you need to remove the battery to unlock the camera. Doesn't
| matter if it is in Auto or Manual mode. I haven't heard of anyone being
able
| to fix this, it is probably due to dried out capacitors on the main
board
| or some such.
|
| On the bright side (pun intended), you can carefully pry the focusing
screen
| out of your OM-PC carcass and use it in your single digit OM bodies.
Seems
| to fit just fine, and I think it is equivalent to the 2-13 screen -
| definitely brighter than a 1 series screen.
|
| Seems like I remember someone saying that the prism is the same as used
in
| the OM-1 (and presumably other OMs?) so it could be used to repair an
OM-1
| prism damaged by foam rot.
|
| Best of luck!
| Chip Stratton
| Owner of one good OM-PC, and two carcasses.
|
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