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Serial number: The camera has been tested with a roll of film in October — you can see the results in the attached gallery. It's not necessary at all to open the upper cover to take out the aperture assembly. Keeping the top cover in place has 2 advantages: improved handling and what's more important, top cover is the best position to draw reliable referencing dots which is explained later.

When disassembling upper cover, it's not necessarily at all to have the rewind crank removed. Since focus in this model is done by rotation of screw type front lens element, positioning is absolutely crucial and messing up will be very painful.

The online article documented this step however is confusing. The detailed steps should be as follows:. Remove the outer ring while having the focus ring set to infinity 'Mountain' 2.

Use a marker pen to mark the position of 12 o'clock on plastic edge of front lens. This dot is temporary and shall be removed in step 4. For accurate matching, it's best to use a ruler to mark another spot on metal top cover in a line along the diameter. Rotate the front lens fully clockwise till the bottom in the article, the term 'the whole way' is really confusing and caused big trouble for me.

Then, again using a ruler, draw another dot on metal top cover 2nd dot along the center and the marked spot on front lens,. Remove the mark on the front lens.

When reassembling front lens, first double check the focus ring is in position of infinity, then screw the lens in fully clockwise to the bottom. Draw another dot on the lens edge along 2nd dot and lens center. Let's call it 3rd dot. Rotate the lens counter-clockwise until 3rd dot is aligned with 1st dot.

Reinstall front ring, be sure to insert the extend directly into the pit in focus ring, tighten 3 screws and make sure outer ring With Olympus Zuiko Made in Japan mark rotate symmetrically with focus ring.

Follow this procedure, factory-level focus accuracy should be retained after a lubrication maintenance. Camerapedia Explore. Camera types List of companies Glossary Source books.

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