Ditto on a "mint condition" 2S. I've seen a few that were beautiful but
had extreme battery drain, bad circuits. Unless you can try out a 2S body
in person, it may be risky. Even in person, you might not be able to
test for battery drain.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 9:28 PM Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> WS wrote:
> > I came across an OM-2s recently. Have no idea what the actual operating
> condition is, but it appears near mint condition.
>
> I'd almost say "buyer beware" with the mint condition OM-2S bodies,
> but in all honesty, at this point most film cameras are novelty items
> for us and not anything we're going to rely on.
>
>
> >I have never used the 2s. One downside for me is the lack of a diopter
> adjustment. The second is the screen is not as bright at the standard OM-4t
> screen. A 2-13 screen, hard to come by except perhaps from a "parts only"
> OM-4, might help.
>
> The 2-series screen is pretty much a requirement with the OM-2S,
> although, I think my favorite for macro photography remains the 1-4.
> At some point over this next year I need to do another round of "kit
> rationalization" and part of that is rearranging the screens again. As
> to the diopter adjustment, yes, that's a sore point for me. The focus
> screen's apparent viewing distance is about 1.5-2.0 meters. Basically
> where my own eyesight has been problematic through the years. What I
> found, though, is that the press-in diopters from Minolta for the old
> manual-focus cameras (forgot which models used the rectangle finder)
> fit in the Olympus viewfinder fine, but a tiny smidge of adhesive is
> required to keep it from slipping out. I used them for years in my
> OM-1md, OM-2md, and OM-2S bodies.
>
>
> > An interestingly designed camera. The fact the camera cannot go smaller
> than the set aperture seems to be a feature of the way Oly lenses aperture
> control works.
>
> What appears to be a limitation is actually more of a brilliant
> feature! For program mode (of which this limitation applies), you are
> biasing the minimum aperture that can be used, which offsets the
> shutter speed appropriately. It's an extremely crude way of
> manipulating the program mode. I do choose to look on the bright side
> of this. :)
>
>
> > Event photography today seems hard to imagine using a film camera. It's
> clear that you have mastered this camera. The menu system is minimal. I
> will probably run a roll of film through it.
>
> I've been sufficiently "Moosified" and have chosen to mostly embrace
> the digital world now. More or less... I'm standing here in my
> recording studio, surrounded by digital mixers, samplers, DAWs,
> controllers, etc., and yet, there are no less than FOUR analog
> semi-modular synthesizers here, including a Moog.
>
> AK Schnozz
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