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After a while of not feeling my best, too many angina attacks and feeling lethargic, after blood tests etc the doctors have sorted me out, well hopefully, seems quite a while since I've felt like getting out, so this afternoon I grabbed the camera and got out in the fresh air, with a little...

I've seen them, but not dealt with them, looking at there contact details, the actual business is a print shop in Halesowen, although the one running UPG24 is not named on companies house as having anything to do with Photo Decor,

I've passed the store so many times, I've yet to find time to go in, as I know it won't be a five minute visit.

I bought a lot of my darkroom equipment form them,

Some in the West Midlands I used to shop in that are no longer here Cine Equipments, Solihull and Stratford-upon-Avon, Ron Parkes, Hall Green Beryl Houghtons, Acocks Green and Coventry, Camera House, Birmingham Cecil Jacobs, Birmingham & Solihull STP Cameras, Shirley Sherwood's, Birmingham...

A bricks and mortar store is something of a novelty these days, I just ordered some leather Olympus straps from SRS, I didn't realise that they had closed the store in Watford last year and moved to a unit in a business park, I don't think there's a store in the West Midlands, when I started in...

Yes they are, I've got two of them, an early Zorki 4 and the later 4K

The first Zorki was basically a FED camera, after that factory had been damaged during the war, which was basically a copy of the pre war Leica, the later Zorki 4 again is a Leica copy, apart from the removable back.

Just remember with the Zorkis, don't adjust the shutter speed until the shutter has been cocked

It's the little lever on the left, move it either way until the frame in the viewfinder is in focus

Did you use Silver oxide batteries,the Olympus cameras don't like alkaline batteries

Check out the light seals, after this long, I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't gone all crusty.

They only crack when they are over tightened, I've sold many OM hot shoes that are still in "As new" condition

Just copied this off the SLR website, other sites list it as the same The Olympus MF-2 Micro Four Thirds to OM Lens Adapter allows the use of legacy Olympus OM lenses on any Micro Four Thirds Digital Camera body. Compact in size and light in weight, the MF-2 is easy to carry and highly useful...

You need the Olympus MF-2 adapter,you can only use it in aperture priority and manual, there's a few on eBay at the moment