Charity Shop Find - Olympus OM20

[matty]

Thought I would share a couple of my recent finds.
Got into trouble (again) because I forgot to post the neice's birthday present and came home with this instead:




Olympus OM20 with the Zuiko 50mm lens. Found in a local charity shop for £14.50. The meter works fine and the shutter fires on all speeds, feels really nice in the hand. There is a nasty ding on the filter ring but it doesn't appear to have jolted the lens out of true, I'll pop in new lightseals (when I've got a chance) and see how it well it shoots. I'm quite chuffed with this as I could never afford an Olympus when I was younger and this just fell into my lap. (Apologies for the truly terrible image quality, the missus has taken the digital camera to work, so this was shot on the phone camera.)
Matty

[Stephen]

The OM-20 works as well as the lens, and matches all the OM series on images. As the lens is nearly all metal, a ding or drop should not affect anything much.
If the main light seals have gone to goo, and are made from foam, then consider using black felt, cut into thin strips with a scalpel blade, or very sharp scissors, it is much more durable, and can be fitted easily with PVA type contact adhesive. Most arts and craft shops sell 1mm and 2mm thick black felt, it is also on Ebay.
Stephen.