In a message dated 6/4/01 8:16:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bstanke@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 1. Early models powered the "flash ready" light with the camera
> batteries. This would drain the batteries in short order, if there was
> heavy flash use. Olympus offered a fix for this, where the LED used
> the flash's batteries, instead of the camera batteries. You can tell
> if you have the early model by mounting a flash unit. If the LED is
> green, you have the original model. If the LED is red, you have the
> revised model. I don't know if early models can still be upgraded; you
> might want to check with John H. at Camtech (http://www.zuiko.com) about
> this.
>
John H. just did this conversion on my Brother-in-law's
Christmas-present-OM-2S. Yes, they can still be converted (and thanks again,
John! He thinks it's a pretty cool camera!).
Rich
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