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Anonymous
I just bought a 1973 Olympus OM-1, and I have a problem. No matter what I set the shutter speed to, it stays at B. It's stuck or something and I don't know how to fix it. Halp?
>> hal9000 !a4fa8BKGtQ
The only solution is to buy a metronome and train yourself to manually open the shutter for common lengths of time (1/60th, 1/500th, etc). I'm sorry.
>> Anonymous
>>149342
I lol'd

I'd like to see a metronome that goes faster than about 1/4th sec.

A more serious answer would be take it to a camera shop and get it repaired, or try and return it to the person you bought it from.
>> Anonymous
Man, you should always check shutter timings before laying money down. But yeah, it's probably not unfixable; there are enough OM-1s floating around.
>> des
>>149339
SOMETIMES you can work this out by spinning the dial back and forth for a while.

Not necessarily your problem, but related to wrenching on old shit- When you're looking at buying a used camera, or even picking up one of your own that hasn't been shot in a long time, always fire the shutter a few times at each speed. Start at the highest and work down. Old lube gets dry and can cause failures. It's much better to have something gum up before you put money down. Then you can either pass or jew the shit out of them, if it's something you really want.
Film cameras this old have been cheap for a long time now, a lot of the cream-puffs are gone. So be mindful and don't jump on anything unless it's excellent, or ridiculous cheap!