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Subject: [OM] Re: Ring flash?
From: "Julian Davies" <julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 15:31:16 +0100
Shoe 4 on an OM1 sounds like another epoxy job from Walt !!! :-)


Julian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Ring flash?


>I dunno.  That's just what I've got.  I bought a couple a long time ago, 
>when they were still cheap and available, in case I ever wanted to use 
>flash with an OM-1.  I never have wanted to.  I just somehow assumed they 
>were the best choice for that body.
>
> I use a Hama Blitzadapter Universal 6950, a/k/a Adaptateur de flash, 
> Adaptador de flash, Vakuadapter, Adapter k blesku, Flitsadapter, 
> Blixtadapter, or hot shoe adapter on the Crown, Century and Graflex XL's. 
> Works fine.  A rose by any other name...
>
> Walt, clueless again
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Why do you need Shoe 4?  Surely Shoe 1, or for that matter any hot shoe
>> would do the job?
>>
>> --
>> Piers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On 
>> Behalf
>> Of Walt Wayman
>> Sent: 07 May 2005 14:29
>> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [OM] Re: Ring flash?
>>
>> I use the T8, T10 and T28 twins on my 6x9 Crown Graphic by using a hot 
>> shoe
>> adapter, so I would guess that it should be no problem to use them on an
>> OM-1, assuming you have a Shoe 4.  I have a couple of OM-1n's and two NIB
>> Shoe 4's, but I've never been inclined to try it since the OM-4's are so
>> much better suited to the macro flashes.
>>
>> Walt
>>
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