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     Markus Tinkerer Username: Markus Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2007 Rating: N/A |
Flashmatic on my Olympus 35RC seems not to be working. I bought the camera off Ebay and mostly everything works after re-soldering the battery hot lead to the contact on the battery compartment. However, when I set the aperture ring to the flash symbol and the shutter speed dial to 30, the aperture stays at the smallest setting, no matter what guide number or focusing distance I select. Perhaps I am doing something wrong... could somebody comment? Can this be fixed, if it is broken? On a different note, the two aperture blades on this camera do not create an opening that is symmetrical about the center of the lens. That is, one of the blades opens a bit further than the other, resulting in an opening that is not quite centered. I have seen this before in an Olympus Trip 35 and the first roll of film came out fine on the 35RC, so I am not too worried about it. But perhaps someone could check their 35RC at, say, f/5.6, to see if this is normal, or not. - Markus |