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RE: OT now - was Re: [OM] Fireworks set Up?

Subject: RE: OT now - was Re: [OM] Fireworks set Up?
From: "Daniel" <danrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:56:38 -1000
Tilley make nice stuff, I'll get one of those Homer Simpson Hardhats
with cup holders for Duff beer.
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Sturm (GMX)
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:43 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: OT now - was Re: [OM] Fireworks set Up?

Just checked www.tilley.com - They don't make them :-(

grin grin

Daniel wrote:
> I could get one of those beer hats! :)
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Sturm (GMX)
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:44 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Fireworks set Up?
> 
> Two words:
> DUCT TAPE
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jan
> 
> Daniel wrote:
> 
>>That's what I found myself, but having both hands full with the cable
>>release and remote in the other leaves me unable to hold my Beer  :)
>>Dan
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Sturm (GMX)
>>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:09 PM
>>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: [OM] Fireworks set Up?
>>
>>If you are mounted on a tripod, take a cable release and possibly a 
>>remote cord with you if you want to achive film wind on without
> 
> touching
> 
>>the camera set up. Here's how you do it:
>>
>>Screw the cable release into the shutter on the body - set body to B
>>Attach the remote cord to the winder / md setup
>>
>>Expose your frame with the cable release. Once you close the shutter, 
>>fire the MD / Winder (best to have it set in single mode) by either 
>>Remote Cord or gently pressing on the Winder's / MD's Shutter release.
>>
>>The Winder / MD will detect that the shutter has been fired, but the 
>>film has not been wound and the shutter has not been cocked. So it
> 
> will 
> 
>>do that for you, anticipating the next exposure (of course, again via 
>>the cable release - and here the cycle closes)
>>
>>OM Gear is pretty clever stuff, eh ?
>>
>>Bests, Jan
>>
>>John A. Lind wrote:
>>
>>
>>>At 04:25 PM 7/3/03, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>So if I shoot w/md the camera will atomicity shoot at 500 sec?
>>>>How?
>>>>Dan
>>>>
>>>>B26) What shutter speed do I get with an OM-2(N) fired with a winder
>>>
>>or
>>
>>
>>>>motor drive when the shutter speed ring is set to B?
>>>>
>>>>       1/500th sec.
>>>>
>>>>       Thanks to John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>>The problem relates to how Olympus designed the MD's and Winders.  On

>>>many systems, the film does not advance to the next frame until you
>>
>>let 
>>
>>
>>>up on the MD/Winder button.  The OM system does not work that way.
>>
>>The 
>>
>>
>>>film advances to the next frame as soon as the shutter closes,
whether
>>
>>
>>>it's in Single or Sequence mode.  IMO this is an advantage, but it is
>>
>>at 
>>
>>
>>>the cost (trade-off) of not being able to use the "B" shutter speed 
>>>setting.  See the "Main Characteristics" text in the eSIF for the MD
>>
>>1, 
>>
>>
>>>MD 2, Winder 1, and Winder 2:
>>>
>>
>>
>
http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/motordrivegroup/motor_drive_1.ht
> 
>>m
>>
>>
> 
>
http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/motordrivegroup/motor_drive_2.ht
> 
>>m
>>
>>
>>> http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/motordrivegroup/winder_1.htm
>>> http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/motordrivegroup/winder_2.htm
>>>
>>>Also looked in my Winder 2 manual under its specs.  It lists the
>>
>>usable 
>>
>>
>>>shutter speeds for the OM-1[n], OM-2[n] and OM-10.  In manual
exposure
>>
>>
>>>mode, all were 1-1/1000th . . . NO "B."  What the manual doesn't
state
>>
>>
>>>is what happens if you do use the "B" setting.
>>>
>>>The "B" on all the single-digit bodies is mechanical.  The MD/Winder 
>>>lets up on the shutter release mechanism inside the camera as soon as
>>
>>it 
>>
>>
>>>has been actuated so it can get on with winding to the next frame as 
>>>soon as the shutter closes . . . whether or not you're still
>>
>>depressing 
>>
>>
>>>the button on the MD/Winder handle.  Clint or John H. will have more 
>>>details.  My best educated guess is this all happens in about 1/500th

>>>second!
>>>
>>>-- John
>>>
>>>
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