There is another reason for the removeable OM hot
shoe, the camera looks so good without it. I also find
that leaving it off until I need it makes the camera
seem smaller and much easier to slip in or out of a
oversize coat pocket. That little shoe gets hung up on
things. (bet Yoshihisa Maitani feels the same)
regards, John Robison
--- Rick Beckrich <RBeckric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Nikon F had a hot shoe that slipped on -
> straddled the rewind knob.
>
> Rick in VA
>
> >>> "Keith (R.K.) Berry"
> <keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx> 02/27 8:42 PM >>>
> Greg McGrath wrote:
>
> >Seems like I read somewhere that Mr. Maitani or
> someone else at Olympus
> >thought that the cameras looked better with the
> naked prism housing, so
> they
> >made the flash shoe detachable.
>
>
> It was fairly commonplace to have to buy accessory
> shoes for the early SLRs
> and I remember an assortment of them in a box in the
> shop where I worked.
> Some clamped onto the end of the camera, some
> slotted over the viewfinder
> window (like the Pen F/FT), and for one of them you
> had to unscrew the ring
> around the circular viewfinder window to fit it. The
> non SLR Pen D's shoe
> appeared to be a complete afterthought, perched on a
> bracket that screwed
> into the tripod socket! They were all pre hot shoe
> though. Is the OM
> detachable hot shoe unique?
>
> Regards,
> Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
> keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://homepages.which.net/~k.berry
>
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