OK, called Oly, waited on hold for half of eternity, talked to a tech and
got a return authorization. Received the email instructions from them,
filled out the paperwork, boxed up the paperwork along with my tired old
InfinityZoom 200 and will ship it out this afternoon for "repair or
replacement." This should be interesting - I wonder how they'll repair it
or what they'll replace it with?
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of ClintPhotosphere
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:23 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Olympus recall
(link) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060314/us_nm/olympus_recall_dc
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. subsidiary of Japanese camera maker
Olympus Corp. and U.S. regulators said on Tuesday that about 1.2
million 35-millimeter film cameras are being recalled to fix an
overheating problem with the flash circuit.
The circuit can cause the camera to overheat and produce smoke when
the camera is on, posing a burn hazard, according the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Olympus has received 21 reports of the malfunction but no injuries,
the regulator's statement said.
The cameras, sold across the U.S. between 1989 and 1995, include the
Infinity Twin, AF-1 Twin, Infinity Zoom 200 series, AZ 200 series, and
Quantary Infinity Zoom 222 Olympus-brand 35-mm film cameras.
Olympus is advising consumers to stop using the cameras and contact
Olympus for a repair kit.
Comments:
"21 reports of the malfunction"? 21!?!? We saw hundreds of these
models with melted flash circuits, most of them "out of warranty".
Contact Olympus for a "repair kit"? How is a customer supposed to
replace the main ciruict, flash circuit, and melted front cover, and
in some cases the shutter circuit/assembly and the AF circuit, too?
And how many customers are going to keep a dead, melted Olympus camera
lying around that doesn't work, hasn't been repaired by Olympus for
years, and that parts are officially "no longer available"?
What a load of BS!
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