Indeed, in real life things do get broken. It's obvious that the God of
All Things Plastic saw my words, and was not pleased. I loaned a Vivitar
flash, a sensor cord, and a light stand to a friend last week. He
brought it back late yesterday in pieces. It has broken sensor cord and
the flash has problems with something internal. Replacing the broken
sensor cord resulted in smoke pouring from the inside of the head unit.
I guess I can still say "I've never broken a flash shoe" right?
:-(
My comment wasn't made so much to slam the OM's as to point out that I
don't think the design or quality of the OM shoe setup is up to that of
the rest of the camera.
It's just my $.02, and it didn't cost you a thing.
--
Jim - Former plastics component designer for a company that built safety
equipment...
clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> In real life, things break - you get bumped into shooting a wedding,
> somebody jumps up in front of you on the sideline knocking your camera
> aside, in a rush you (foolishly) pick your camera up by the flash (doh!
> it's not made for that!). It's something people who _use_ their cameras
> have to deal with.
>
> And if your shoe "breaks" when you're twisting on your flash, I bet (a)
> it's not an Olympus flash and puts too much torque on the shoe in the
> first place, or/and (b) the shoe was already broken from some prior
> abuse, and was just waiting for the most inopportune moment to tell
> you! (In other words, have you ever known a shoestring to break by
> itself, or don't they usually break when you pull on them? Are
> shoestrings "cheesy", then?)
>
> I've broken a shoe on a T-32 - I'm a little rough with them now and
> then, but they're my tools, OK? Fixing them was trouble, sure enough.
> But when it happend, I pulled out another flash and kept on shooting.
>
> My friend bumped his C*n*n - the flash ripped off part of the top cover
> - the camera was unusable, the film fogged, but he didn't find out until
> it was too late (several rolls of film later). The repair bill to fix
> his camera was about 5 times what I paid to fix my flash.
>
> "Cheesy", my rat's tail!
>
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