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[OM] Re: sofreleases

Subject: [OM] Re: sofreleases
From: wiliam.wagenaar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 09:05:15 +0100

John Hermanson wrote:
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>Yes, that's what I'm talking about too. The camera was designed with the
>release button protected within a collar.  When you screw in an "acme"
>release button extension, it raises the button above that collar and  makes
>it a high point on the camera, a target.
>Not recommended, AND  sofreleases were never designed to take into
>consideration what affect they have on the guts of the camera.
>Your OM-1 and 2 will last  longer if you don't use one.  I hate having to
>tell people "there's this little lever broken off, without it, your release
>button doesn't come up anymore, they don't make them anymore and it wouldn't
>have broken if you hadn't used a soft release......"
>Just packing a camera in a camera bag (in many cases) will put undo pressure
>on the release linkages (whether or not the shutter's wound) simply because
>that big button is there.
>The lever that breaks is also the one that locks the release button after
>the shutter's fired or before it's wound all the way.
>
>Thats my rant for the day.  ;-)
>
>John
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I have an OM-1 and an OM-2n and never saw the need for another release button.
Not even when shooting at -20 C with gloves. But I do attach a cable release
every now and then. Can this harm the mechanism insde also?

Wiliam



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