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Re: [OM] FAQ-Q

Subject: Re: [OM] FAQ-Q
From: "R. Lee Hawkins" <lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 19:29:12 -0500
Cc: olympus-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In your message dated: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 00:18:23 +0100 you write:
>damn difference - either on the socket or on the cord.

Must be your camera.

>
>What has caused the understandable confusion in the FAQ is the inclusion
>of the reference to the Shoe 4 - the OM-1n (and many OM-1's as well, as
>my example showed) is always in X-sync, period.  If you take a meter you

Not according the the manuals and other docs that I have.  Thus, I have
to believe that there must exist *some* OM-1N's that have the option of
switching.

>can check that the contacts on the sync cord are connected directly to
>the contacts on the shoe so they both operate in the same mode. 

But that's the whole point.  If you install the shoe, it automatically
sets the camera and PC socket to X Sync.  Without the shoe and with the
switch in FP, you are supposed to get FP sync.  Not that anyone ever
used it :)

Cheers,
--Lee

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