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Author Message   Rick_oleson Tinkerer Username: Rick_oleson Post Number: 440 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 07:32 pm:    This sounds like a failing capacitor (condenser), but I'm not an electrical guy either. I do know that the OM2 is a capacitor based system, in which power through the light cell charges a capacitor which becomes the shutter timing device in AUTO mode... so it would make sense that if the capacitor won't take a charge the shutter will not get the signal to close.