Looks like you got yourself a beautiful classic Olympus. Neat camera!
I'm sure if you stuck it on the auction site, you'd easily net twice, maybe even three or four times, what you paid. Some well used, poor condition examples with f2.8 lenses have been selling for $50+. Good grab at $30, for sure!
Post some samples from it so we can see what a vintage Olympus f1.8 lens can do!
Argh! Somehow I don't think I'm the one to be able to show what this lens is capable of.
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First, the darling little thang was showing sluggish shutter symptoms, so I had to open her up... from the top anyway.
It looks as though some ham fisted field jockey (probably not too unlike moi) had already done penetrated her first; having dented and banged the spanner screw holding the winder arm on and had un-sprung the wire spring beneath. My poor baby had been done wronged!
So I rewound the tender wire coil a couple turns, cleaned the viewfinder glass, crossed my fingers, tossed salt over my shoulder and put her back together again.
Now I'm a total newb with manual controls, so befuddled by the selenium light meter and the lack of asa film speed control.
And what the (!!!!) No batteries?
Nothing left but to put some film in and click....
So I just got the first roll of the cheapest drug store 200 back,
and it works. Wow! Ok, nothing to write home about, but still, I'm thrilled.
The second shot was when I was attempting to try out the self timer and sort of guessed the close focus range.
