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Subject: [OM] Re: (OM) Choice of OM4* camera
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:28:54 -0800
Walt, I don't understand.  What is a southerner doing with fingernails?

Earl

Walt Wayman wrote:

><snip>
>
>My problem with the self timer switch was, since I almost always use either a 
>winder or a motor drive, when picking up the camera, the fingernail on my 
>right "bird" finger would sometimes catch the little lever without me 
>realizing it, so that when I pushed the shutter release for that 
>once-in-a-lifetime shot, instead of a "snickety kerplunk and whirr," I got an 
>infuriating "beep, beep, beep, beep," as I stood there trying blindly to hold 
>the camera for 12 seconds exactly where it was pointed to begin with.  After a 
>few instances of this, I learned to keep the thing pushed all the way over 
>toward the lens, avoiding this problem and silencing other beeps.  If that had 
>failed, there would've been epoxy involved.
>
>Rant over.  Love the OM-4s anyway.
>
>Walt
>  
>



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