In article , R. Lee Hawkins <lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>No, what "automatic X-sync" means in this case is that no matter what
>position you have the FP/X switch set at, the shoe will always be in X
>sync. With the OM-1 (no N) this was apparently not true, and you had to
>watch the position of the switch.
>
When I stripped my OM-1 down a few years ago I was interested to note
that the wiring of the FP/X switch effectively shorted the switch out,
so it was always in the X-sync, no matter what postion the switch was
in. When I rebuilt it I checked it and sure enough, the switch made no
damn difference - either on the socket or on the cord.
What has caused the understandable confusion in the FAQ is the inclusion
of the reference to the Shoe 4 - the OM-1n (and many OM-1's as well, as
my example showed) is always in X-sync, period. If you take a meter you
can check that the contacts on the sync cord are connected directly to
the contacts on the shoe so they both operate in the same mode.
--
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