In normal operations, too much light will cause most of the beeping you
hear. In abnormal operations, i.e. the little black lens sensor peak on the
camera mount is worn, the camera will beep every time the lens moves just
enough to make the camera think the lens has been removed and remounted. If
this is your problem, it must be fixed or the camera could forget your lens
aperture selection just as you attempt to shoot and throw off the auto
exposure. Perhaps you can get a new one from Clint or John. They don't
appear to be difficult to get at
-Mickey
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM-4 beeper question
> This describes the Battery Check beep. That's actually how I determined
> that my camera had the new circuit. The beeping I experienced this
> afternoon was not in the Battery Check position, though. It was in the
> Auto position. An Audi has been abandoned on my street and it's all
> covered with leaves and filth and has about a dozen stickers on it from
> the local police threatening to tow it away (why it's still there I
> have no idea). Anyway, I decided to snap a couple of photos of it and
> used the spot meter and Shadow function to expose for deep shadows.
> After I'd snap the exposure the camera would beep four or five times. I
> have no idea what that means and the manual doesn't really explain it
> either. I tend to think that it may have meant that even at 1/2000 of a
> second the shot was still overexposed. I was shooting wide open with a
> 28mm F2.8 and hoping that shooting wide open would give me a little
> less depth of field. I wanted the car in focus and as little else as
> possible, but I wanted the "open" angle from that lens. Even though it
> tends to have way more DOF than I typically like I'm going through a
> phase where I feel like everything I shoot is claustrophobic somehow
> and I keep grabbing the 28. I was shooting Portra 160 VC and it wasn't
> that bright out, but I noticed the meter really jumping into the short
> exposure times. In all likelihood the beeps were telling me I'd just
> overexposed my film, but I wish I knew what all the alerts were for
> sure. I haven't had to adjust to a new camera since the Carter
> administration, so I'm just feeling a little out of my element. ;-)
>
> -Rob
>
> On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 05:24 PM, owl_luvr wrote:
>
> > John & Rob, this might answer the question:
> > http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/archives/2000/msg10115.html
>
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