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Subject: [OM] Re: OM40 / OMG OM2 OM2n and T10 Ring Flash
From: Michael Kopp <mkopp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:17:49 +1200
>"The information about the shoe models is wonky, IMHO."
>
>'umility is all very well, Michael, but it doesn't h'excuse h'inaccuracy
>(not IMHO, but desrvedly angst-ridden lest I have got it wrong, again) :-)
>
>Shoe 2 and Shoe 3 both have one pin in addition to the screw - the position
>of the contact in the hotshoe differs - and both do fit the OM-2 (*only* the
>OM-2, not the 2n, nor the 1 or 1n).  Shoe 2 connects the OM-2 to the QA310
>flash, while Shoe 3 connects the OM-2 to a T-series flash.
>
>Shoe 4 has two pins in addition to the screw and connects the OM-1n and
>OM-2n (not the OM-1 or OM-2) to a T-series flash.
>
>I confess that was written without looking at the offending table, but with
>the benefit of Shoes [1], 2, 3 and 4 in fromt of me, with an OM-2.
>
>Thanks *very* much for the hint about URLs, I hope the above is suitable
>recompense!
>
>Piers

Merci.

M<


>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Michael Kopp
>Sent: 03 September 2004 10:15
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: OM40 / OMG OM2 OM2n and T10 Ring Flash
>
>At 13:20 -0700 2/9/04, Timpe, Jim wrote:
>>Did you look here?
>>http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~rwesson/esif/om-sif/flashphotogroup/bodyflas
>>hmode
>>table.htm
>
>Well, no, but I'm not impressed with that list. The information about the
>shoe models is wonky, IMHO. A shoe 3 won't fit on an OM-2 because the Shoe 3
>has two pins and a screw, while the plain OM-2, at least the one I have, has
>only a screw socket and one pin hole. And the Shoe 2 only has one top pin in
>addition to the central sync one.
>
>May I offer a suggestion about URLs?
>
>If you enclose them in <> brackets, like this:
>
><http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~rwesson/esif/om-sif/flashphotogroup/bodyflashmod
>etable.htm>
>
>... you'll note that even thought they are spread across lines, they aren't
>broken by a line wrap, and they remain clickable.
>
>Thanks for the help,
>
>Michael Kopp
>Wellington, New Zealand
>
>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
>>Behalf Of Michael Kopp
>>Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:46 AM
>>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [OM] OM40 / OMG OM2 OM2n and T10 Ring Flash
>>
>>
>>Hello again, Olympians,
>>
>>(Or is that Olympusians?)
>>
>>As usual when I hit a brick wall in use or Web research about my
>>Olympus collection, I come to the experts.
>>
>>I have an OM40 (which is the OMG in the U.S.) and a T10 Ring Flash.
>>
>>The OM40 works fine with a T32, making it produce flashes of varying
>>brightness (power/time) depending on f/stop and distance as it's
>>supposed to do.
>>
>>It does not seem to do this with the T10, which produces what appears
>>to be a full-power flash no matter what the f/stop or distance.
>>
>>Yet the T10 is really just a modified T32 power unit, as I understand
>>it, and has the same 3-contact shoe and switch for contacting the three
>>contacts in a Shoe 4 or my OM40.
>>
>>I cannot find anything in any of the specs or instructions for either
>>camera or flash on any of the usual suspect Web sites, or by Googling,
>>which indicates which cameras the T10 is compatible with.
>>However, since the OM40 is a subsequent development (and refinement) of
>>the OM2 OTF technology, one would think that the T10 should work with
>>it.
>>
>>If so, that would seem to indicate that the T10 has a problem.
>>
>>Any information, experience, advice or opinion would be gratefully
>received.
>>
>>TIA and Cheers from the Antipodes,
>>
>>--
>>Michael Kopp
>>Wellington, New Zealand
>>
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