Boy, this is getting arcane. I just played with the shutter speed rings
on a bunch of cameras. A couple of OM-1s, one CLAed and another not,
were very similar to a couple of OMPCs. OM-4s were definitvely notchier,
with an OM-2n (never CLAed) somewhere in between. Any of them can get
dirty, drying up grease and get hard to turn. I bought an OMPC from Tom
with a gritty, grindy shutter speed dial (fully disclosed by him and
price reflecting condition). Opened up up, cleaded it up, relubed and
it's sweet and smooth. It's a pretty simple mechanism.
Moose
M. Sparks wrote:
Getting deeper into trivia, it has the smoothest shutter speed ring (Also
like the PC/40) . . . I mention this only because the rings on other OM's
can be prone to stiffnes, a fingernails-on-the-blackboard
grinding/scraping, or in the case of my OM-2S, complete lockup.
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