OK, right up front: This camera worked when I got it last July.
Honest. I dry-fired it a bunch. I downloaded the manual and learned it. I said "wow, cool!"
I ran a whole roll of film through it, and most of the way through that roll it started doing that Olympus OM-lockup thing. You know, mirror goes up, shutter does not fire, hit the "reset" switch.
It worked. It didn't work. It worked.
Then it just plain didn't work. Thus it has been for the last month.
New batteries? Tried that.
New Silver-Oxide batteries? Tried that.
Fiddle with this and that? Cleaned the contacts? Prayer? Tried that.
Swore? Nah, not worth the effort.
So, the camera does not work. But it did. What am I doing wrong? What is wrong? No clue.
Other than that, camera is lovely. Lens (f-1.8 50mm) is lovely. Soligor 70-210 macro zoom is really really lovely.
For a mere $70, which INCLUDES SHIPPING IN THE US of A I will send the whole getup to you and you can figure out what's wrong. Maybe it will be happier with you.
Deal? Make offer? PM and away we go.
Paypal is summicron12000@yahoo.com
thanks
Charlie Trentelman
Ogden, Utah.
Honest. I dry-fired it a bunch. I downloaded the manual and learned it. I said "wow, cool!"
I ran a whole roll of film through it, and most of the way through that roll it started doing that Olympus OM-lockup thing. You know, mirror goes up, shutter does not fire, hit the "reset" switch.
It worked. It didn't work. It worked.
Then it just plain didn't work. Thus it has been for the last month.
New batteries? Tried that.
New Silver-Oxide batteries? Tried that.
Fiddle with this and that? Cleaned the contacts? Prayer? Tried that.
Swore? Nah, not worth the effort.
So, the camera does not work. But it did. What am I doing wrong? What is wrong? No clue.
Other than that, camera is lovely. Lens (f-1.8 50mm) is lovely. Soligor 70-210 macro zoom is really really lovely.
For a mere $70, which INCLUDES SHIPPING IN THE US of A I will send the whole getup to you and you can figure out what's wrong. Maybe it will be happier with you.
Deal? Make offer? PM and away we go.
Paypal is summicron12000@yahoo.com
thanks
Charlie Trentelman
Ogden, Utah.
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