Thanks for your reply, Curt. It just so happens that I'm waiting on an
OM PC to be delivered (for my son's use) so I guess he'll get the
80-200, too! What a coincidence! In the meantime, I'll contact the
store to see what they might be able to do.
Ed Senior
Curtis P. Hedman wrote:
Hi Ed....
Might be a common problem with this lens... I also bought one (my
first eBay venture) as 'new old stock', and found the pin to be 0.8 mm
shorter than my other lenses. I also measured the depth into my 4T of
the tab that contacts said pin, and found it to be within 0.2mm of the
length of the pin, meaning any variation and the body lever slipped
past the pin and the camera lost all idea of the aperture setting on
the lens. I was pretty sure that Vivitar would do nothing about a 20+
year old lens, regardless of its 'new' status, and I was reluctant to
go back to the seller (it was new, after all), so I parked on the
shelf for awhile. As it turns out, I bought an OM-PC a bit later, and
found that it's body lever was a bit farther forward (a mm or so)
which was sufficient to reliably engage the short pin on the Vivitar,
so now the lens is 'dedicated' to the OM-PC!
When I discovered all this, I posted to the list to see if anyone else
had similar experience... yours is the first similar experience I've
noted. Interesting it is the same lens model! At the time I was
interested in compiling some statistics on pin length and lever depth,
but didn't have access to that many bodies or lenses, and no one on
the list shared my fascination with this question, so.... my
collection has expanded since then, so maybe I'll get out my digital
calipers one of these days and measure my kit, just to be doin'!
Anyway, I suggest that you contact the camera store about this, to see
if you can get any satisfaction.
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