Regan Conley wrote:
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?
The OM-G, has an electric shutter. If the batteries are low, the
shutter will lock up similarly with the OM-2. With good batteries, both
the OM-G and the OM-2/n will work in the off position, although in a
limited sense.
Charles
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