Was there film in the camera? Try rocking the auto - manual switch back
and forth about a hundred times, then try again.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Bryhn" <thomas.bryhn@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "olympus" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:04 AM
Subject: [OM] Failing meter?
> Yesterday evening during a small auroral outburst I noticed that the
> spotmeter in my OM-4T started to misbehave. The exposure times were all
way
> too short, at least by a factor of 4-6. I checket the reading by setting
> the 21/2 to full opening and the ISO to 3200, thereby forcing the reading
> into the range visible in the viewfinder LCD. No matter what I metered at
I
> got a reading in the 1/4 to 1/8 region. The average meter also gave too
> short exposure times, but it varied somewhat from picture to picture. The
> camera gives correct readings under normal lighting, I doubble checked it
> this morning.
>
> Any ideas what might be going on here? Contact problems somewhere, or is
> the meter simply shot? I guess I could call this my daylight camera and
use
> it as an excuse to get another OM-4T....
>
> Thomas Bryhn
>
>
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