Far enough. It looks like the only sure way is to line up the red mark at 12
o'clock and see if the button is going to get hit. I'm about to epoxy the
offending screw now on my old mount.
Thanks for that clarification Rand
Foxy
-----Original Message-----
>Foxy,
> I beg to differ with your conclusion. I have five Adaptall2 mounts.
>Of these three are marked "Adaptall 2, for OLYMPUS OM,JAPAN" and two are
>marked "OL, JAPAN". Much to my dismay, every one of these WILL cause
>the shear problem on my OM4. The only difference in all of them as far
>as the shear problem is that one of the "OL, JAPAN" marked ones has had
>the screw epoxyed or something similar.
> On the basis of the five that I have I cannot accept that the ones
>marked "OL" are good ones.
>Rand E.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Terry and Tracey wrote:
>>
>> Looking at my mounts, the good one has three screws placed nearly 120
>> degrees apart around the mount. And a fourth screw 180 degrees from one
of
>> the other screws. My bad mount (bad mount, naughty mount) does not have
>> these 3 screws equally spaced. The offending screw is the one near the
DOF
>> preview button.
>>
>> The good mount is OL Japan, bad mount Adaptall 2 For Olympus OM Japan.
>>
>> The DOF preview button is moved around along with the offending screw on
the
>> good mount. I had never considered this until someone posted it about the
>> 300mm f2.8.
>>
>> Foxy
>>
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