Olympus 35 ECR Question

By the way, for those of you that like to use lens shades this camera has a 43.5 Tiffen Adapter Ring Series 6 mounted directly to the lens. Screwed into that is a Vivitar 1A Skylight Filter Series 6. Into that is a Vivitar series 6 lens shade. I need to order some series 6 black and white filters. If you want to take pictures without any filter attached you can remove the filter and the shade screws directly into the Tiffen Adapter Ring.

Tom
 
Probably a good test using the variable power supply would be if you could determine what shutter speed the light meter selected at various power supply voltage settings and compare those shutter speed that a good hand held meter suggest for a particular ASA setting. It all sounds like too much work. Might as well be taking pictures and quit fooling around.

Tom
 
Thank you for the information.

Thank you for the information.

I will dig my cameras out and have a go at trying to get a light and a reading out of them... Hopefully at least one, so I know I can read and follow instructions.

Lars
 
I got my ECR working again. Corrosion had travelled up the power wire like a wick and caused a bad connection. I ended up replacing the wire. It is a great little pocket camera.
 
btgc said:
RF horizontal adjustment screw is accessible from film chamber, unscrew what looks like small screw around top film guide rail and it's inside hole.
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Are you *sure* about that? I've just picked up a 35 ECR, ran a roll of film through it and the focus seems to be way off. The 35 RC certainly has a removable plug for rangefinder adjustment, the 35 ECR has a couple of small screws which aren't hiding anything.

I've had the top (and bottom) off mine, and can't see anything which is obviously a rangefinder adjustment. Any advice much appreciated!

Also, to add to the battery information - I did a few tests today with a couple of multimeters and a bench supply (set to 2.7V). My 35 ECR draws between 25 and 65 mA when the shutter button is 'half-pressed'. The current draw depends on how much light is falling on the photocell. The Zinc-air batteries that I tested (brand new Rayovac 675) will not supply 65mA at 1.4V. Sticking a 24 ohm resistor across one collapses the terminal voltage to below a volt, dropping pretty quickly to around 0.5V. I'd be interested to know what sort of current draw other 35 ECRs have - 65mA seems pretty high compared to what I've read for meters in old cameras. The Zinc-air batteries are listed as being able to deliver 24mA for 100ms once an hour on the datasheet...

However, the roll of expired Portra 160NC I put through it as a test came back with 39 nicely exposed frames. The focus is completely off though :-( I'm reasonably sure it's not me being an RF newbie, distance reported by the focusing ring seem fairly sensible too.

Photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nialloswald/sets/72157623466109944/
 
*Bump* Any ideas?

As it happens I've also bought a 35RC, but the ECR is such a nice simple little camera it'd be a shame not to get it working...
 
NiallOswald said:
Are you *sure* about that? I've just picked up a 35 ECR, ran a roll of film through it and the focus seems to be way off. The 35 RC certainly has a removable plug for rangefinder adjustment, the 35 ECR has a couple of small screws which aren't hiding anything.
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Then ECR, while quite similar, isn't identical to 35RC from which I gave advice. I stay corrected.
 
The ECR had a very nice rangefinder as I recall. Nice and bright (if all elements inside are clean). Problem had always been the power source . The mercury batteries were extremely prone to leakage, brand new mallory stock would leak in the box before we could even go through the inventory. ECs often had fully corroded circuit boards when the leakage traveled through the wire like a pipe. At the very least we (at Olympus, Woodbury NY) had to replace the battery contacts and wires in every single EC series camera that ever came in for overhaul. John
 
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