I scratched my M*n*lt* SRT-101 mirror the same way. A friend of my
father's gave it to him years ago and it was passed on to me. I had it
sitting around in its case for another bunch of years. I decided to
check it out one day and somehow in handling it I turned the mirror lock
lever without realizing it and locked the mirror up. I didn't realize
it because I was so unfamiliar with the camera I didn't know it had a
mirror lock. I then dry fired it once and realized the mirror hadn't
come down. On removing the lens I noticed the apparently original
mirror foam was getting gooey and suspected the mirror had gotten stuck
in the goo. I carefully slid a little knife blade between the mirror
and gummy foam and soon realized that gummy foam was not the problem.
Only then did the brain turn on and ask whether this contemporary of an
OM-1 had a mirror lock-up lever. Sure enough it did and I had flipped
it up somehow. Presto. Mirror drops down immediately upon releasing
said lever. Sadly, I realized that my very careful knife insertion had
left a fine scratch near the bottom edge of the previously pristine
mirror. Too late smart. I felt like a stupid idiot.
Anyhow, the 58mm f/1.2 is still in fine condition... I think.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
>>I knew about the battery related OM4 lock up, but never about the
>>OM-1. What is the solution,
>
> Activation of brain cells. John is talking about mirrors that have been
> locked up with the mirror lock-up mechanism and that could thus be
> unlocked the same way.
>
> Moose
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