Olympus OM20 How to Load 35mm Film

If you are wondering how to use the OM20, then it is not very different from the OM10. Installing a new roll of film, and rewinding the film involves the same steps and therefore you would do well to look at the Olympus OM10 article in conjunction.

As always, pulling up the film rewind knob will pop open the back cover gaining access to the exposure chamber.

Here, you can also see the horizontally travelling cloth curtain shutter, and the take-up spool. Cloth is an extremely light material and therefore the fastest shutter speed is 1/1000 seconds, which is good enough for capturing fast moving objects.

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