Jees, how long did it take him to think that up ;-).
Tell him to order part number ZJ182700. This is the flash modification kit
includes the new red led and circuit which fits neatly on the front of the
prism right under the top cover. That is the ONLY fix for battery drain
with flash on a 2S.
John
Camtech
Gareth Knight wrote:
> People,
>
> After an earlier post regarding the short life of the batteries in my
> OM2SP with the T32 attached, John Hermanson suggested a modification
> to allow the flash ready LED in the viewfinder to be powered by the
> flash rather than the camera batteries. Given that I live in the UK,
> John said that any Olympus Service centre could do the modification.
> I rang one up yesterday and got an interesting answer:
>
> The man said that he didn't know of such a modification, but that in
> his experience the problem was easily solved. Apparently, the OM2SP
> has a built in safety measure that was designed to allow the camera to
> cope with the high power Lithium batteries that had became available.
> Since these were of higher power than the #357 silver oxide batteries
> it was designed for, things like the light meter did not work
> properly. The manual said only use the silver oxide batteries, but
> assuming that some people would ignore this, they built in a device to
> drain Lithium batteries to the same level as Silver oxide batteries to
> make the camera work properly. The man said that sometimes this
> circuit needed to be reset, or else it erroneously drained Silver
> Oxide batteries because it thought they were of too high a power.
> This can be done by pulling the lever to battery check for ten seconds
> when you put a new set of batteries in. This apparently overrides the
> draining circuit and turns it off.
>
> Any comments ? I have not seen mention of this anywhere.
>
> Gareth.
>
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