Yep, it's an easy mod. I did it to an OM-2000 and also a Bessa-L which has an
identical mechanism.
...Wayne
> Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From 10 years back:
>
> Chuck Norcutt
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:09:01 +0100
> From: "Keith (R.K.) Berry" <keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] OM2000 -- impressions
>
> Joel wrote:
> >... this winder lever configuration makes the camera really
> problematic
> >for left-eyed shooters, and if you're one of those, I'd just say
> forget
> >this camera. But even for right-eyed shooters, I find the winder
> lever >a nuisance for verticals because the lever bumps the forehead...
>
> Hello Joel,
> >From Frank van Lindert's posting some time ago, you don't have to put
> up with this winder problem. In case you missed it I'll copy it below
> from my 'archives'
>
> Regards,
> Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
> keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> "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)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
> >
> > For left-eyed shooters (which I was convinced at one point was every
> > other Olympus shooter), the OM2000 needs a little modification to
> > allow the shutter to work without the lever being half-cocked, poking
> > said shooter in his southpaw forehead. Frank VL figured that out and
> > I think the procedure he wrote up is out there somewhere.
> >
> > Joel W.
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