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Olympus E-P5 dial malfunction and warranty questions

Started Jul 9, 2015 | Questions thread
Rich K
Rich K Senior Member • Posts: 1,006
Miraculous recovery

Although I'm not recommending to anyone that they simply ignore a problem, sometime it works!  The rear dial on my EP-5 started to skip about two months ago, about two weeks before we were to leave on a 5 week trip to Europe.  No time to send it in for repair, so I familiarized myself with the "push the buttons" method and left for the trip.  After a couple of weeks in cold and rainy Ireland I happened to start using the rear dial and remarkably, no problems.  Three more weeks in hot and sunny Provence, and the camera was still going strong.  Perhaps some dust or grit in the mechanism worked its way out?  Wish I knew what the "fix" was - taking a long trip to Europe seems like a fairly expensive camera repair!

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Sony RX100 III Olympus PEN E-P5 Olympus E-M5 II Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12mm 1:2 Panasonic 12-35mm F2.8 +5 more
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