At 09:55 AM 5/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Actually, I do have a positive comment to add to this discussion:
>
>The self timer switch on my OM-2S (and I will assume the 4T is the same)
>operates in the following way:
>
>1. You move it over to the side to initiate self timer mode.
>2. You press the shutter release.
>3. Mirror goes up
>4. Wait, wait, wait, wait
>5. Shutter fires.
>6. You move the self timer switch back over to the off position
>
>Now, if you just so happen to move the self timer switch back to the off
>position DURING step 4, it will skip the rest of the time remaining and
>trigger the shutter.
>
>Now, my recommendation for a modification to the circuitry would be to
>replace or substitute the self-timer switch with an external switch that
>can be turned on and off without touching the camera!
>
>For the electronically inclined, a person could create a circuit that would
>turn the self-timer on, trigger the shutter release and then turn the
>self-timer off after a second or so.
>
>Ken (just wasted a frame testing this) Norton
>
Thanks Ken. Now I remember having discovered the same thing accidentally
in one of my forgot-the-timer-was-on booboos. I could have saved you a
frame. Hey, it was probably the film I gave you anyway!
I wonder what actually happens when one manually moves that switch back to
the "home" position and brings the timer sequence prematurely to
completion? Is the electronic sequence actually accelerated to its
end-point, or is it as though the sequence was never initiated in the first
place (and so the shutter immediately fires)?
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
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