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Sonlight
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Username: Sonlight
Post Number: 8
Registered: 02-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 03:58 am: | 
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I bought an old Olympus Trip off Ebay. Everything seems fine except that the red warning flag does not appear when under exposed. Anybody got any ideas how to fix it ? |
Jan
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Username: Jan
Post Number: 32
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 06:49 am: |
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When there is not enough light, not only the flag will pop up, but the shutter release will also be blocked. Is it being blocked?
This is a common problem on the Trip. Usually can be fixed by cleaning the auto exposure mechanism located behind the front plate. Remove the top cover, peel back the leatherette around the lens, expose 4 screws and the whole lens/shutter/meter assembly will come out as a unit.
The other possibility is that the selenium meter is dead. When working, the Trip should fire at two speeds - 1/30s and 1/250s, depending on the amount of ambient light. The aperture will also be adjusted automatically, depending on lighting conditions. With the back open, fire the camera against varying light levels and observe if there are changes in exposure times and aperture.
All the best,
Jan |
Sonlight
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Username: Sonlight
Post Number: 9
Registered: 02-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 04, 2007 - 01:00 am: |
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Thank you Jan for your reply. The shutter release is not being blocked. I have checked the exposure times and they seem to be OK - one is slower than the other. I am going to try to clean the auto exposure mechanism as you have suggested and see if that does the trick.
Many thanks for your advice,
Sonlight. |
Francis_otto
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Username: Francis_otto
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 01:26 pm: |
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If it helps at all, I have sometimes found, on removing the top-plate of an Olympus Trip 35, that the little toothed plates that operate the red-flag/aperture-mechanism,bind against one another, or fail to swivel on their pivots. A little judicious bending -engineers call it 'setting' I believe - in the one case and/or a rub of pencil (=graphite) in the one case; a drop of watch-oil on the pivots in the other, usually does the trick. |
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