Instructional manual covers up the old fact that with certain flashes (300
and QA310) OM-2 causes less than full discharge when fired at a shutter
speed of 1/60.
I think this was dropped from the 2N owners manual, because by then the 310
was discontinued, and that operational shortcoming did not show up when
using a T32 at 1/60th.
Bottom line is something is wrong with a 2/2N that won't fire a flash at
1/60th set to manual.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando Gonzalez Gentile" <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] T32 is not firing at 1/60 (New Findings)
on 10/09/2003 09:37, John Hermanson at omtech@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> There is a safety switch on top of one of the shutter gears which
prevents
> the flash from firing above 1/60, it is possible it is out of adjustment
or
> defective in some way and is causing the flash to not fire at 1/60.
> ----------------------------------------------------
Hi John, Carlos, Piers, all,
Since I asked Piers where was he reading what he quoted, I went to read my
T32 instruction manual (14EMPT32-0784-7MS).
On page 23 it says, (using smaller characters):
* The OM-4, OM-2N synchronizes with electronic flash at the shutter speed
of 1/60 or slower. Howevwr to eliminate any possibiliy of accidental dial
shifting, it is recommended you use the 1/30 setting.
(With OM-2 on Manual: 1/30 or slower)
I thank Paul who called offlist my attention to this.
This arises some questions:
1) Neither the .pdf at olympus.dementia.org/Hardware/, nor my OM-2 manual,
or the /esif/om-sif/bodygroup/om2.htm point this out ¿Is there a design
change between 2 and 2N regarding flash sync? I think not. So why this
warning?
2) It says it does sync at 1/30, but it doesn't say it will not fire at
1/60.
3) On page 31, same recommendations for OM1-N but it doesn't state the OM-1
syncs at 1/30 like the OM-2.
John, could you please read my answer to Carlos?
I need some light on this...
Fernando.
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