OM1n broke!

[nikon_sam]

I took one of my Pentax MX's to Portland, OR for shutter repair and CLA, they called me when it was done and said there were shipping it back...a few days later I get a box from them, open it and pull out someone elses camera...
It was a chrome body Pentax Spotmatic with a 50mm 1.4 lens...I called them about this error...they thanked me and said they would send a shipping return tag...I got it to UPS this morning...now I'm waiting for my MX again...
I forgot to say that the camera belonged to someone in Charlotte, NC

 

[Chris101]

That's funny! I would have suspected the same thing - Camtech scrubbed and buffed my camera almost to the point of unrecognizablity. Fortunately I had written my camera's serial number down.

 

[Trius]

Idiosyncratically? No, it worked as intended by (moment of silence) Maitani. 😀

 

[ChrisN]

That explains why my OM2 feels 'weird' to use; I'm a long time Pentax user. 🙂

Something else I've just noticed. On the OM lens, the focus ring turns the same way as Leica focus rings, and the aperture control ring is mounted forward of the focus ring. Just like Leica. If you are accustomed to OM lenses it's an easy transition to Leica.

With the Pentax, not only does the focus ring turn the wrong way, but the aperture ring is behind the focus ring. Everything in the wrong place!

Yoshihisa Maitani, designer of the Olympus OM System, was known to be a keen photographer and user of a Leica Barnack camera. I suspect the nature of the control layout on the OMs is no accident.

 

[Chris101]

This is a follow up. The exposure given by the meter of my newly repaired OM1n seems to work.

 

[Trius]

Yoshihisa Maitani, designer of the Olympus OM System, was known to be a keen photographer and user of a Leica Barnack camera. I suspect the nature of the control layout on the OMs is no accident.

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