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Subject: Re: [OM] OM - mention
From: "Marco" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 18 Sep 98 11:39:05 +0200
On Mar, 15 set 1998 5:13, *- DORIS FANG -*
<mailto:sfsttj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>In the October 1998 issue of Pop Photo, in the "Too hot to handle" letters
>section (at the back of the magazine), a reader asks about using his
>Pentax 400 AF-T flash on other cameras. The editors reply that late-model
>Prakticas often would accept OM flash units and meter accurately 
>through the lens! Read it for yourselves, p. 248.

Reverse is true I have tried. That is Praktica flashes (cheapish) on OMs. I
am not sure of what stated by PopPhoto, for the reason of the "safety"
small lever that holds the two addictional contacts high till they are on
the final position on the OM shoe (on most T flashes). SCA adapters for OMs
and Prakticas are the same (Metz: x2x, Braun: 120, ecc.).
>
>Also...
>
>  In my Oct 98 issue of Outdoor Photographer magazine there's an ad for a
>mail-order outfit called "Triple SSS" (seems a tad redundant). They're
>advertising a 420-800 mega-zoom made by Kenko, and it is listed as 
>being made in Olympus mounts. Price ? $299.00. 
>
It happens in Italy too with discontinued lenses that are available in few
mounts only (the others had been sold all) and often OM mount is the last
to survive on shelves... I remember I got a Vivitar zoom of this kind, few
years ago. 

Marco




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