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Olympus E-PM2 intermittent problem

Started Mar 8, 2018 | Discussions thread
jalywol
jalywol Forum Pro • Posts: 12,302
Re: Olympus E-PM2 intermittent problem

Geoliebert wrote:

Hi, my E-PM2 will, when taking a picture after a long sleep, trip the shutter and go to black, then shut down the camera. Usually, right afterwards it will work properly.

Anybody have anything like this happen to them? I just used the camera for about three weeks without it happening, then it happened today a couple of times.

So it's intermittent but not very frequent. Anybody?

My guess is that you may be having a failing shutter mechanism.  If you had the newer type IBIS in the later generation cameras, that can do that also, if it fails, but I don't know if the version in the EPM2 does that when it goes.

My suggestion would be to use continue to use the camera until it consistently starts happening, and then send it in for repair (you may want to call Oly first and find out what the repair would cost; if it's expensive, it might make more sense to consider a new camera, unfortunately).  The EPM2 is a nice camera, I had one for a year, and liked it a lot, hopefully you can get it fixed without it being too expensive.

-J

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