Olympus 35 SP working in Auto not Manual ?!

[Glgor]

Hello, my SP seems working fine in Auto mode (meter ok, shutter and aperture working consistently with light, aperture full close or open...) while in Manual mode time shutter is fine BUT aperture seems only working very close.
Am I missing something, or any idea ?
Thank you

 

[CMur12]

Welcome to RFF, Glgor!

I don't have an answer to your problem, but this will bump you back to the top.

- Murray

 

[Zuiko-logist]

Sorry if stating the obvious - the manual mode is manual, ie you need to move the aperture to match the EV shown by the meter in the viewfinder for a given shutter speed, ie it is not shutter priority with the aperture set by the camera.

 

[Glgor]

Sorry if stating the obvious - the manual mode is manual, ie you need to move the aperture to match the EV shown by the meter in the viewfinder for a given shutter speed, ie it is not shutter priority with the aperture set by the camera.

In manual, if I set time to B and aperture to 1.7, I expect to see full aperture when pressing shutter release.
Same if I remove battery, in manual I expect shutter and diafragm working as I set..
Am I wrong?

Thank you for you help

 

[Sonnar Brian]

It would help if you posted a picture of what you are seeing.

 

[Zuiko-logist]

In manual, if I set time to B and aperture to 1.7, I expect to see full aperture when pressing shutter release.
Same if I remove battery, in manual I expect shutter and diafragm working as I set..
Am I wrong?

Thank you for you help

That’s correct. Something sounds wrong.

 

[Glgor]

Picture of ... aperture close at 22 while aperture ring set at 1.7 ??

 

[ddutchison2]

...and your manual is here, great little RF's

Olympus 35 SP instruction manual, user manual, Olympus instruction manuals, Olympus PDF manuals

Olympus 35SP instruction manual in PDF format.

www.butkus.org

 

[Glgor]

Thank you, already got and read several times

 

[Glgor]

I suspect that in Auto, camera succeds in full opering the aperture blades, while in Manual blades stay at f22 opering.

Something similar to my 35 trip.. in auto it succeds in full opening, in manual (for flash sinchro) sometimes it fails full opening (even after my manual blades cleaning)

 

[Nitroplait]

I have an 35 SP.
When switching from A to manually setting the aperture, the aperture should change real-time when the dial is rotated.

If looking From the back with the back open you should see the blades move when you change the aperture dial.
If, as you describe, it doesn’t, then there is a problem with the camera.

BTW. Does the aperture change when you rotate the dial in the opposite direction to the GN scale?

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I had something like this happen on a Minolta 7s bought for parts, but ended up fixing it. The Aperture Ring couples to an underlying mechanism that controls the opening of the aperture. This aperture ring had jumped the coupling. After removing the rings- was able to re-attach the ring to the coupling.

 

[Zuiko-logist]

I had something like this happen on a Minolta 7s bought for parts, but ended up fixing it. The Aperture Ring couples to an underlying mechanism that controls the opening of the aperture. This aperture ring had jumped the coupling. After removing the rings- was able to re-attach the ring to the coupling.

So the camera would work in auto because the ring is not used for that mode?

 

[Sonnar Brian]

The aperture would work in Auto as the "Trap-Needle" system of the meter controls the opening of the aperture.

Kind of like Auto-Pilot working after a Control Yoke broke.