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RE: [OM] Fireworks set Up?

Subject: RE: [OM] Fireworks set Up?
From: "Daniel" <danrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:14:49 -1000
I could get one of those beer hats! :)
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Sturm (GMX)
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:44 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Fireworks set Up?

Two words:
DUCT TAPE

;-)

Cheers,
Jan

Daniel wrote:
> That's what I found myself, but having both hands full with the cable
> release and remote in the other leaves me unable to hold my Beer  :)
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Sturm (GMX)
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:09 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Fireworks set Up?
> 
> If you are mounted on a tripod, take a cable release and possibly a 
> remote cord with you if you want to achive film wind on without
touching
> 
> the camera set up. Here's how you do it:
> 
> Screw the cable release into the shutter on the body - set body to B
> Attach the remote cord to the winder / md setup
> 
> Expose your frame with the cable release. Once you close the shutter, 
> fire the MD / Winder (best to have it set in single mode) by either 
> Remote Cord or gently pressing on the Winder's / MD's Shutter release.
> 
> The Winder / MD will detect that the shutter has been fired, but the 
> film has not been wound and the shutter has not been cocked. So it
will 
> do that for you, anticipating the next exposure (of course, again via 
> the cable release - and here the cycle closes)
> 
> OM Gear is pretty clever stuff, eh ?
> 
> Bests, Jan
> 
> John A. Lind wrote:
> 
>>At 04:25 PM 7/3/03, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So if I shoot w/md the camera will atomicity shoot at 500 sec?
>>>How?
>>>Dan
>>>
>>>B26) What shutter speed do I get with an OM-2(N) fired with a winder
>>
> or
> 
>>>motor drive when the shutter speed ring is set to B?
>>>
>>>        1/500th sec.
>>>
>>>        Thanks to John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>The problem relates to how Olympus designed the MD's and Winders.  On 
>>many systems, the film does not advance to the next frame until you
> 
> let 
> 
>>up on the MD/Winder button.  The OM system does not work that way.
> 
> The 
> 
>>film advances to the next frame as soon as the shutter closes, whether
> 
> 
>>it's in Single or Sequence mode.  IMO this is an advantage, but it is
> 
> at 
> 
>>the cost (trade-off) of not being able to use the "B" shutter speed 
>>setting.  See the "Main Characteristics" text in the eSIF for the MD
> 
> 1, 
> 
>>MD 2, Winder 1, and Winder 2:
>>
> 
>
http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/motordrivegroup/motor_drive_1.ht
> m
> 
>
http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/motordrivegroup/motor_drive_2.ht
> m
> 
>>  http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/motordrivegroup/winder_1.htm
>>  http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/motordrivegroup/winder_2.htm
>>
>>Also looked in my Winder 2 manual under its specs.  It lists the
> 
> usable 
> 
>>shutter speeds for the OM-1[n], OM-2[n] and OM-10.  In manual exposure
> 
> 
>>mode, all were 1-1/1000th . . . NO "B."  What the manual doesn't state
> 
> 
>>is what happens if you do use the "B" setting.
>>
>>The "B" on all the single-digit bodies is mechanical.  The MD/Winder 
>>lets up on the shutter release mechanism inside the camera as soon as
> 
> it 
> 
>>has been actuated so it can get on with winding to the next frame as 
>>soon as the shutter closes . . . whether or not you're still
> 
> depressing 
> 
>>the button on the MD/Winder handle.  Clint or John H. will have more 
>>details.  My best educated guess is this all happens in about 1/500th 
>>second!
>>
>>-- John
>>
>>
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