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Subject: [OM] Beware of Bonehead with OM-2S
From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 23:28:05 -0500
I know that I am:

1. Rusty
2. Distracted
3. Tired

But this was really stupid.  I was photographing a banquet last night and
used my "wedding rig" which consists of my OM-2S, winder, Vivitar 5200
flash with homemade diffusion filter and angle bracket to position the
flash for vertical pictures.

I shot two rolls of film, but the beginning shots on each roll were ruined
because I failed to double-check the position of the mode switch.  That's
right, I had the switch in manual instead of auto.  Worse yet, the shutter
speed was set at 1/250.

I wouldn't have caught it except that the flash was doing full-dump even
for close-in shots.  I put two and two together and checked over all the
settings and connections and discovered my mistake.  Fortunately, I caught
my mistakes in time to redo most of the critical shots, but probably still
ruined 15 altogether.  What really ticks me off, is that I did it twice!

If I could only get the G40 flash mounted off-camera I would probably
completely switch over to the IS-3 for wedding/event shooting.

Oh No!  I just had a sinking feeling.  You guessed it, I forgot to change
the ISO dial too.  Whew, it was set on 160 and I was shooting Gold 200.
That was a lucky mistake.

The room was so dark last night (candlelight only), that everything was
guesswork.

Ken (40 lashes with a cable release) Norton

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