Re: [APML]: OM-1 Pictures

[Brian Halbrook <bhalbroo@mail.portup.com>]

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At 1:41 AM -0600 7/17/98, Gary J. Klima wrote:
>When I got my film
>back,
>all of my shots looked great, except for the ones that I locked the mirror
>up on.
>(which happen to be most of them!!) I found that very odd, because the
>pictures
>I didn't use lockup on were fine. Does that make any sense? I know I didn't
>do
>anything else different.

The mirror lockup operation is very basic and easily checked. Have you
checked (with no lens on the camera) to see if the mirror is locking all
the way up? If it is, then fire the shutter with the mirror in the up
position while set to B and see if the mirror is moving at all.


Brian Halbrook                  <mailto:bhalbroo@portup.com>