Hi Chuck,
Thanks very much for the info. Even I should be able to do that fix.
And many thanks to Frank for the original adventure !!
Brian
Date sent: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:27:52 -0400
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] OM-2000 winder lever fix, was: honest vendors and
feedback
> Brian lamented:
> The camera is very lightweight. I'm looking forward to trying it out.
> The only real negative for me is that to turn on the meter and to enable
> shutter release, the film transport lever has to be pulled out from the
> body a little. Since I use my left eye for viewing, this means that it
> pokes into my face.
> -------------------------
>
> Getting rid of the eye poking annoyance of the OM-2000 winder lever
> From an original posting by Frank Van Lindert:
>
> "I made the modification needed to have the shutter being no longer
> blocked by the winder switch in rest position. I have never made any
> modification this easy, and what is more important it is completely
> reversible. You only need to dissemble the winder switch (by unscrewing
> the tiny Phillips screw on the underneath of the handle) and taking
> temporarily away the next three parts sitting around its axis. Then the
> blocking ring is visible on top and the only thing I did was turn it
> upside down, making sure that the little protuberance in the ring which
> would normally shift under the shutter points to the back rather than to
> the front (maybe I should say to eight o?clock instead of ten o?clock).
> After that you can reassemble the winder switch exactly as it was
> before. The little protuberance now lies almost exactly under the winder
> handle. All it took was exactly three minutes... and now the OM2000 is
> free of the annoying Nikon inherited eye-threatener. And it still has
> twelve months of warranty - I didn?t even have to open the camera
> body." (Frank van Lindert)
>
>
>
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