Olympus 35RC, misaligned aperture readout.

zanxion72

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• Feb 15, 2014

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I have a little Oly 35RC. It works fine, but the readout of the aperture in the viewfinder is misaligned. When I set it at f22 I see the needle settling at the f16 dot in the finder, when I set it at f16 I see f11, etc. Can the be fixed? It is not much of trouble and it works in Auto well, but I would like to fix the readout too.

 

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• Feb 15, 2014

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There are some notes on this page that may be helpful: http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-134.html

There's no information specifically on your question, but once you get under the lid, the solution may become apparent.

 

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• Feb 16, 2014

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Thank you for that link. Indeed it is pretty descriptive on dismantling it. It seems that it will be a long process, I will arrange an extra long weekend to deal with it.
Thank you.

 

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• Feb 18, 2014

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I have discovered more to that. Not only the aperture reading in the viewfinder looks misaligned, but also the shutter opens asymmetrically. When selecting something like f/5.6 or f/8, it seems like the blade at the lower right (viewing from the back) does not fully open. I wonder if there is some spring not acting as it should in here.