Hey ya'll. I'm back from my trip to Peru and I think I got some good
shots while there (and a LOT of junk, too). It'll be a while before I
get the slides scanned and am able to put any up for viewing.
However, while I was on my trip I had a little camera incident. I was
in the middle of shooting a roll of film and suddenly the mirror locked
up. I dug around on the internet a bit for some causes and solutions
and the most obvious thing seemed to be grease on the magnet. I was a
rather peeved at this idea since I'd just had the camera in for CLA. At
any rate, I managed to get the bottom off with imperfect tools (never
travel without a Swiss Army Knife). I released the mirror, but
everytime I tripped the shutter it would lock again. Having reached the
end of my camera repair abilities, I put the thing back together, and,
just for good measure, put some new batteries in. Voila. Problem solved.
However, the OM-G is a fully manual camera. The camera works just fine
in "off" mode. I know that the OM-2 can have this mirror lockup problem
with dead batteries, but I didn't think it affected any other OMs. Has
anyone ever heard of this problem? Any clues as to what was happening?
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