So i recently came into posession of an Olympus OM-1, the brainchild of Maitani and the team who could put together something so compact, so complicated and so beautiful in a magnesium alloy and plastic sandwic that is a joy to hold.

The OM-1 in my hand

The good

• The shutter works a treat, i tested it against a DSLR and the curtains seem to be in sync and not too fast or too slow. I am however a bit skeptical of 1/1000s as there’s little gap for light to make it through. But that could be of course how slow the mechanical shutter is on this camera.
• The film advance is working well
• It’s beautiful
• The ISO dial spins freely when commanded to.
• The shutter curtains have no pinholes or tears

The bad

• The self timer is broken, it’s jammed at the bottom position, likely the spring broke and released the tension of that mechanism
• The film counter is broken, can’t know how many shots you have left until the end of the roll.
• The light meter is broken, that’s why there was a loose thread in the middle of the