Since almost noone bothers with flash bulbs any more, a dab of epoxy on the
sync switch will keep it from turning. many people ask me to do that for
them. FP can also be disabled so it is X sync at both positions.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Lau <dlau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 3:19 PM
Subject: [OM] That darn FP/X switch...
> I am ready to throw this piece of sh.. called the OM-1 into
> the river ...
>
> Well, unless someone can help me out. For the third time,
> I had a shooting session ruined because the FP/X switch on
> my OM-1 got accidentally switched to FP (I have a feeling
> it happened during one of the many lens changes). All the
> flash shots after that were black, with no indications at
> the time since the flash still flashed.
>
> I do have an OM-1n and I understand that the FP/X switch has
> no effect on the hot-shoe, which is always X. But alas, I
> don't have a hot-shoe #4 for it (hint, hint, hint, ... it is
> a user, so I don't need anything fancy).
>
> So, my question to other owners of the OM-1, what do you do
> to avoid this problem? Is there a permanent fix for the
> FP/X switch to make it behave like the OM-1n? Were there
> any factory mods for this?
> -Dan
>
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