Re: [OM] Perils of using non-Olympus lenses

[M. Lloyd]

Older non Olympus lenses will frequently have 4 screws
instead of three like all Olympus lenses. If you look
at an OM-4 or 3 you will see a small plastic button
inside the rim.This is the spot reset button and if
one of the screws is not smoothed over by epoxy etc in
non Oly lenses the button can be sheared off. Again
this is fixable by filling in the screw hole and the
lens is then safe for use whenever.

Mak Lloyd

--- Pete Prunskunas <pyotr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the owner's manual for Olympus bodies is a phrase
> to the effect
> that the use of non-Olympus lenses might break off
> something on
> the rim and some features will be disabled.  I could
> have sworn that
> they mentioned spot metering as the feature that
> could be disabled,
> but maybe that's just senility.  Has this happened
> to anyone here?
> If so, what brand of lens caused the problem?
> 
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
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