There are 2 magnets in the XA, one of them gets oily.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:08 PM
Subject: [OM] XA with 'sticky magnet'?
> I've got a weird problem with the XA I recently acquired; sometimes
> (rarely) it'll open the shutter for way too long -- so if the meter says
> 1/1000th, when I press the release, instead of a single click sound,
there's
> a definite click..click about (I'm guessing) 1/10th of a second apart.
It's
> almost like the sticky magnet on my OM10, but this is an XA so it can't be
> that..
>
> Weird things, though:
>
> 0. Of course, I can't reproduce this now.. [1]
> 1. _really_ strange -- if I use self-timer, it works fine, and seems to
> convince the thing to start working again
> 2. The one image I can find that looks like this happened seems to be
> exposed relatively well, which is even more peculiar because I can't see
how
> the aperture could have shut down to make up for the too-long exposure
time;
> though perhaps it's just the processors making up for it -- it's
definitely
> blurred as if I had hand-shake for a lot more shutter-open time than I
> remember having when taking that shot. If you see what I mean.
> 3. It's got new (SR44) batteries in it, so I don't think it's that.
> 4. It seemed to get better when I changed the roll of film.
>
> Now I write this, I'm almost thinking it could be the mis-loaded film
> bulging in weird places and pressing on the back of the shutter and
keeping
> it from opening properly; does this sound at all plausible? Not sure why
> self-timer would fix it in that situation, though.
>
> thanks,
>
> -- dan
>
>
> [1] and of the films I shot where I know this was going on, I managed to
> mis-load them all -- of the first four rolls I shot, only one came out at
> all, the other three all had the entire 24 shots squeezed onto the first
> frame-and-a-bit's worth of emulsion. I've got the hang of it now, but boy,
> what a pain; next time I'll make sure to check the first roll before doing
> anything else.
>
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