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Re: [OM] Olympus G-40 Flash on E-?

Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus G-40 Flash on E-?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:52:52 -0400
If you check the eSIF you'll see that the G40 has a non-standard shoe.
<http://olympus.dementia.org/eSIF/om-sif/is-series/is-series.htm#iS/L_Flash_Units>

By adapting the shoe of another flash unit the poster has been able to 
fit the flash into the ISO size shoe of most cameras.  He's also wired 
the shoe so that it catches the focusing signal from the camera body and 
turns on the focus assist light.  The guide number of 40 is with the 
zoom at telephoto position.  Otherwise the flash is probably about the 
same power as a T32.  Having focus assist is valuable if you do a lot of 
low light flash work in dance halls, etc.  But, since the resulting 
flash is manual, there's not much here to recommend this over a T32 or 
any other older powerful and inexpensive manual/auto flash unit.

Chuck Norcutt


Wayne Harridge wrote:
> G'day All,
> 
> Does anyone know what this is about ?
> 
> http://photo.net/olympus-camera-forum/00UXJd
> 
> Anyone on the list found a way of using a G-40 on an E-? ?
> 
> ...Wayne
> 
> Wayne Harridge
> http://lrh.structuregraphs.com/
> 
> 
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