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Manual focus of Olympus 60mm f2.8 doesn't work

Started Feb 5, 2019 | Discussions thread
OP benwood Regular Member • Posts: 359
Re: Manual focus of Olympus 60mm f2.8 doesn't work

Thanks for the suggestion. I did try fiddling with that focus limiter switch several times, couldn't get anything working.  I tried turning on the camera in MF mode, versus other times in AF mode, and no diff.

It must be a ribbon cable that popped out?  If I didn't think I would probably wreck it, I'd take it apart and see if something was disconnected.  Years ago I fixed my camcorder, soldering a new ribbon cable in place.  Amazing that I even found the part, it was in the very early days of the internet.

But that didn't work at all, so I had nothing to lose.  Unless somebody pipes up and thinks the lens would be an easy enough job to tackle, I'll probably do as you suggest, just use it AF only, and use focus lock and my legs to do more precise near focusing.

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