Greg McGrath wrote:
>Seems like I read somewhere that Mr. Maitani or someone else at Olympus
>thought that the cameras looked better with the naked prism housing, so
they
>made the flash shoe detachable.
It was fairly commonplace to have to buy accessory shoes for the early SLRs
and I remember an assortment of them in a box in the shop where I worked.
Some clamped onto the end of the camera, some slotted over the viewfinder
window (like the Pen F/FT), and for one of them you had to unscrew the ring
around the circular viewfinder window to fit it. The non SLR Pen D's shoe
appeared to be a complete afterthought, perched on a bracket that screwed
into the tripod socket! They were all pre hot shoe though. Is the OM
detachable hot shoe unique?
Regards,
Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
http://homepages.which.net/~k.berry
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