In real life, things break - you get bumped into shooting a wedding,
somebody jumps up in front of you on the sideline knocking your camera
aside, in a rush you (foolishly) pick your camera up by the flash (doh!
it's not made for that!). It's something people who _use_ their cameras
have to deal with.
And if your shoe "breaks" when you're twisting on your flash, I bet (a)
it's not an Olympus flash and puts too much torque on the shoe in the
first place, or/and (b) the shoe was already broken from some prior
abuse, and was just waiting for the most inopportune moment to tell
you! (In other words, have you ever known a shoestring to break by
itself, or don't they usually break when you pull on them? Are
shoestrings "cheesy", then?)
I've broken a shoe on a T-32 - I'm a little rough with them now and
then, but they're my tools, OK? Fixing them was trouble, sure enough.
But when it happend, I pulled out another flash and kept on shooting.
My friend bumped his C*n*n - the flash ripped off part of the top cover
- the camera was unusable, the film fogged, but he didn't find out until
it was too late (several rolls of film later). The repair bill to fix
his camera was about 5 times what I paid to fix my flash.
"Cheesy", my rat's tail!
Jim Sharp wrote:
>
> This sounds like something a salesman would come up with...
>
> Did you tell him you prefer "None of the above"
>
> I love my OM's but I think the whole flash setup is somewhat "cheesy."
> The shoes are weak, both on the camera and on the flash units. There is
> no reason a flash shoe should break just from trying to pivot the
> flash... It seems other brands don't have near the same problems.
>
> --
> Jim
>
> clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Another observation:
> >
> > An Olympus rep once put it this way to me:
> > "Which would you rather have break? The shoe of your flash, or the top
> > of your camera? Your flash breaks - you keep shooting, albeit with some
> > limitations. Your camera breaks - your sunk!"
> >
> > I've also been told that the system is designed to break in stages,
> > whenever excessive forces are applied - the flash's shoe breaks before
> > the camera's shoe, the camera's shoe breaks before the camera. Ditto,
> > the winder base - it's made of a fiberous material specifically to
> > absorb impact and protect the body, i.e., the winder breaks before the
> > body.
> >
> > Now if only they made break-away lenses.... ;^)
> >
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