Right off of their wonderful AFL design, with the same set of
non-replaceable lithium batteries, they were probably anxious to design
several things around this new battery technology. Good thing they didn't.
Dealers HATED the AFL, first for not being able to change the batteries
(which wouldn't fix camera breakdowns anyway) and second for no filter
threads, so they couldn't sell lens caps or filters for it.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans van Veluwen" <hcvanveluwen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] A1L Flash Unit
| : The A1L led is read in reverse from your standard ready light. When
the
| : led goes out quickly, that means the batteries are good. When it stays
on
| : longer, batteries are weak. CBINMTBDAH (changing battery is not meant
to be
| : done at home) ;-)
|
|
| Hmm, not one of Olympus' highlights in technical design, is it? a flash
w/o user
| replaceable batteries. Just think of an OM-4 or T32 that needs to be sent
to an
| Olympus service centre when their batteries are empty... ;)
|
|
| hnz
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