Without having dissected a hot shoe (Shoe 1, 2, 3 or 4) I suppose you could
if you were a hotshot machinist with a milling machine come up with a
replacement for the black plastic parts made of aluminum. How much this
would cost if made by a skilled machinist I can't guess, but I suppose you
could sell them if they said "Leica" on them instead of Olympus...
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
on 3/24/03 9:04 PM, Charles Sdunek at charles@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What I would really like to see, is someone machining or moulding improved
> flash shoes that wouldnt crack and could support a flash unit. Something a
> little more meaty so that it would seat more firmly. The real question is,
> what is the cost in relation to the price one could sell them for, and how
> many would one have to sell to break even?
>
> Charles
>
>
> At 11:52 PM 3/24/03, you wrote:
>> My original, pre-MD OM-1 came with one. There is a different, larger one
>> that came on OM-2(n)s with little fingers for the additional contact
>> holes. I think I didn't get mine because the camera store installed the
>> hot shoe and threw it away. I suspect that was the fate of many of them.
>> They are really little, nondescript things and really easy to lose. I do
>> have one sitting in a black OM-1 to back up my memory that they do really
>> exist. All we need is somebody with one of the OM-2 models and somebody
>> who can do plastic molding and we all could have lots of them, like Beljan
>> and the MD & battery covers.
>>
>> Moose
>>
>> Jim Brokaw wrote:
>>
>>> According to legend the body came with a little plastic cap for the screw
>>> socket... my two bodies that I bought new didn't have it, and I can't
>>> recall ever having seen one. From the look of the socket, it appears that
>>> the tail-end piece from a traditional BIC pen might fit if chopped a bit
>>> creatively...
>>>
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