National Geographic took the diode out of an OM-10 motor drive switch
and then ran the body at 5 fps for "a while" and watched the shutter
curtain posts melt. OM-10 below 2,000,000 have the plastic curtain shafts.
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Moose wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>>I should think that all OM shutters are essentially of the same design.
>> They're all horizontally traveling cloth focal plane shutters with a
>>1/60 second maximum flash sync speed. I'm sure there are detail
>>differences between them (like maybe plastic bits in the double digit
>>bodies)
>
> I seem to recall that the plastic rollers were only in the OM-10 bodies
> under one million in serial number. After that, the redesign with the
> magnets in front and steel curtain rollers took over.
>
> Moose
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