Grrr! Forgot to reset the time again! Sorry!
clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Do you mean "...lifting the film rewind lever up...", as in just enough for
> the
> fork in the rewind shaft to clear the spool inside the cassette, but not
> opening
> the back? And doing so makes the wind easier for a while? It's entirely
> possible that the collar that holds the rewind shaft _has_ been bent, and is
> no
> longer perpendicular to the body. We most often see it on the OM-2s and
> OM-4t,
> but it's possible on the OM-4.
>
> Any sign of impact to the knob itself? That would be a likely sign.
>
> james olson wrote:
>
> > I now have two OM-4 bodies with the same problem. As I progress through the
> > roll, it gets harder and harder to manually wind the camera. I have been
> > able to get around it by lifting the film rewind lever up, which makes it
> > easier to wind.
>
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