I did sort of the same thing once on an OM-4, except my contrivance was much
more elegant! I modified a double-AAA battery penlight, complete with on/off
switch, fashioned a bracket to fasten it to the tripod socket, ran tiny little
wires through a tiny little hole in the battery compartment cover to a "dummy"
battery made from a piece of wooden dowel and two bits of aluminum foil. It
worked.
Then I joined this list and discovered the most valuable piece of information I
have ever learned here -- that for years I had been using the wrong batteries,
which caused me to use excessive profanity and threaten to do bad things to
certain OM bodies. So, I bought a s**tload of 357's, threw the "accessory"
thing away and haven't looked back.
Walt
> Perhaps it was once set up as a remote camera? With a 250exp back, I could
> see something like that battery hack coming in handy after a while, if you
> needed the AE.
>
> Since everyone's deemed this an abomination, what would the 'clean' solution
> to that problem be?
>
>
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