The FAQ is right and Kennedy is not (mostly)
-----Original Message-----
From: Kennedy <rkm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, 4 April 1998 10:19
Subject: Re: [OM] FAQ-Q
>In article , R. Lee Hawkins <lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>No, what "automatic X-sync" means in this case is that no matter
what
>>position you have the FP/X switch set at, the shoe will always be
in X
>>sync. With the OM-1 (no N) this was apparently not true, and you
had to
>>watch the position of the switch.
>>
>When I stripped my OM-1 down a few years ago I was interested to
note
>that the wiring of the FP/X switch effectively shorted the switch
out,
>so it was always in the X-sync, no matter what postion the switch
was
>in. When I rebuilt it I checked it and sure enough, the switch
made no
>damn difference - either on the socket or on the cord.
>
>What has caused the understandable confusion in the FAQ is the
inclusion
>of the reference to the Shoe 4 - the OM-1n (and many OM-1's as
well, as
>my example showed) is always in X-sync, period. If you take a
meter you
>can check that the contacts on the sync cord are connected directly
to
>the contacts on the shoe so they both operate in the same mode.
>--
>Kennedy
Well, to explain.
My early OM2 (production pre '78) did exhibit described behaviour.
If the switch was on the FP the hot show was as well. I've read
somewhere at the time that is not the case and quite sure of myself
(was 18 at the time) proceeded to ruin quite a few rolls of film at
my uncle's wedding. He actually noticed the position of the switch
and I said :"Naah, it does not matter, The hot shoe is always in X."
Boy was I embarrassed.
So now I know!
(About the wedding, there were other people with more sense then
myself who were also taking photographs, luckily)
So actually Kennedy is not wrong in the techical part but in the
part with his assumptions.
cheers
bgt
-- Sig --- ( I'm the most modest <modestestest> man in the world ! )
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