try this test::
Open camera back, set to manual 1/60. Set flash to high auto. Point camera
at blank wall and fire shutter with camera 1-2 feet from your face. Look
through shutter as you fire it. You should see a full frame of flash.
Then, turn flash off, fire shutter on B. Does any part of the second
curtain show within the frame before you release the button? If so,
curtains are out of position.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Moth" <ray_moth@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Olympus Mailing List" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:12 AM
Subject: [OM] Flash synch. problem with OM-2S
| Dear All,
|
| I'm hoping someone can suggest how I can solve a problem I've just
| encountered with my OM-2S. I was using it indoors with a T-32 flashgun,
| with the flash set to TTL mode and the camera in auto mode. I've done
| this many times in the past with no problems.
|
| This time, when I got the film developed, a portion of each picture was
| black. This was on the left-hand side of each print (right-hand side of
| each negative) and the width of the black portion varied from about 1/6
| to about 1/4 of the frame width. The rest of each shot was correctly
| exposed. It seems to me that the synch. is not working and that the
| camera is triggering the flash at shutter speeds faster than 1/60 sec.
| I cannot imagine why the camera would select such a fast speed because
| I was using an ISO 200 film the ambient light was quite dim.
|
| Does anyone know what could be causing this? Is it something that can
| be fixed in an OM-2S? Thanks in advance for your help.
|
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