Personally, I'd go to the store and get a fresh set of Eveready 357
batteries. Sounds very much like it could be battery related, even given
they were 'new'.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dacey" <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: [OM] OM-2s meter died
> Well I was taking advantage of having the day of and it actually being
nice
> out and was out in the garden taking some more macro shots with the OM-2s.
> This time I wasn't using the T10 flash.
>
> The first roll of film went fine. The second however, began to develop
> problems about halfway through the roll. I began to notice that the meter
> reading in the viewfinder was acting very strangely. It would "bounce"
> between a normal reading (say shutter speed of 125) no reading (well
> massively underexposed, as low at the meter will read). At first this
would
> happen very quickly and then act normally but the frequency was
increasing.
> Sometimes changing the aperture would fix the problem temporarily, other
> times switching to manual and back to auto would work. It still sounded
like
> it was using a proper exposure though when I took the shot. Now however,
the
> meter has completely "died" and I don't get any reading with it on auto.
If
> I switch to manual and set the lens to wide open and 1s then it shows
proper
> exposure (which I suspect is just a default value), this happens even with
> the lens cap on. I've tried another lens just in case that was the problem
> but the results are the same. The batteries were a fresh pair of Maxell
SR44
> Silver Oxide cells which I just put in last week. I had another brand new
> pair of SR44's (never used, still sealed in their boxes), loading those
had
> the same effect. With each pair of batteries, the battery check worked
fine
> and the shutter speeds sound accurate (although I didn't test this too
much
> as I still have an unfinished roll in the camera).
>
> Any ideas of what might be causing this? Is there anything I can try to
fix
> this or is it send to John H time?
>
> --
> Andrew "Frugal" Dacey
> frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.tildefrugal.net/
>
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