Hans,
No, no no!
Our friend Tom has a RARE pre-production T-32 flash, once owned by the
Olympus Company! (At some point in the manufacturing/sales process wasn't
ALL of our gear owned by Olympus? <g>)
He should probably sell in on *-Bay, and use the proceeds to buy a new
E-10...
Bill Stanke
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans van Veluwen" <hcvanveluwen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OTF: Reliable? NOT!
> : Interesting, as I bought my last OM-2 in the summer of 79, when I worked
> in
> : a camera store in San Diego. That must have been when I bought the T32
as
> : well. We never had any OM-2n bodies, or I would have bought one. The
body
> : must have come out later in the year.
>
> 1979 was the year when the OM-2 / QA310 combi was replaced with the OM-2n
/
> T System. Regarding the body, you bought old stock ;)
>
> : On the other hand, the OM-2 HAD to have been designed for the T-flash,
or
> : the circuitry wouldn't have been able to handle the Shoe 3.
>
> It's very likely that the T System was designed together with the original
> OM-2, but that Olympus simply didn't have enough production capacity for
> this System. So they modified the QA 300 (designed for the OM-1,
introduced
> about one year later) into the QA 310 to do TTL/OTF with the OM-2.
>
> According to Pangerl's "Blitzfotografie ohne Grenzen" (Edition Olympus 5,
> 1981) the first T flash was introduced in 1979 (the same year as the OM-2n
> was introduced). This was the T20. The next two flashes in the System were
> the T32 and T10; they were introduced in 1980. If you bought yours in
1979,
> it must have been a no-good prototype ;)
>
> Most T System accessories were also available at that time. The T8 and
both
> T28's were introduced (or announced) in 1983 according to Edition Olympus
6,
> Ausgabe 83/84, "Das Lexikon des OM-Systems". The T45 was introduced in
1984,
> together with the OM-3 and OM-4.
>
>
>
> hnz
>
>
>
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