I'm not so sure, but I do found that when battery power is not enough and I
use the T32 on hot shoe, the shutter fire but actually was not open, when
the T32 was turned off, I got good exposure. This happen two times on my
OM4, one time when shooting a wedding, in a roll, half of the picture came
out totally dark, but the flash and shutter did fire, an extremely bad
experience that I will never forget. I had use manual 1/60s (not mechanical
speed) and normal flash mode.
The second time was happen doing macro insect shoot in TTL flash mode. It
always shown under no matter how close the distance was and what aperture I
had used, then I remember the wedding experience, I thought the shutter did
not really open. I changed the battery, everything then worked fine.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Fw: Olympus OM 4 ,keine TI
> OM-4 drain should not be affected by T flash, that was only found in the
2S.
>
> John Hermanson
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 9:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Fw: Olympus OM 4 ,keine TI
>
>
> Dear Bernd,
>
> Thank you very much for your translation, I will try to answer it in
English
> to see if she can understand. The OM4 eat battery very fast especially
with
> TTL flash connected, there should be no different between on flash mounted
> on shoe or connected with TTL cable. But two rolls seems too less even all
> shot with flash. I can get at least 5 rolls (may be more, not formally
> tested) with my OM4. May be there is something wrong with the camera, the
> only cure could be change the circuit to OM4Ti but it will be quite
> expensive. One point I can't understand is why the silver oxide die faster
> than the other.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernd Moeller" <dsl33687a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I just had another look at the forwarded mail and found that I cannot
help
> with the problem of battery eating described there.
> >
> > I'll therefore translate the text as good as I can (it's written in a
sort
> of telegram style):
> >
> > "My problem with a OM4 (not a Ti) is this: when using a flash, in
> particular with a cable [I assume he means TTL cables], the
> > silver oxide batteries die after very short time. Lithium batteries
> perform very badly, with alkaline batteries [I can] shoot about 2 films
with
> 36 exposures, 800f the pictures taken with flash. Has this problem been
> discussed before? My address is Wacholderstrauch@xxxxxxxxxxx Regards
Jochen
> Maier"
> >
> > I have no clue apart from the general comments on OM4's that eat
> batteries.
> >
> >
> > Hope we can help this poor individual
> >
> > Bernd Möller
> >
> >
>
>
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