This sounds like something a salesman would come up with...
Did you tell him you prefer "None of the above"
I love my OM's but I think the whole flash setup is somewhat "cheesy."
The shoes are weak, both on the camera and on the flash units. There is
no reason a flash shoe should break just from trying to pivot the
flash... It seems other brands don't have near the same problems.
--
Jim
clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Another observation:
>
> An Olympus rep once put it this way to me:
> "Which would you rather have break? The shoe of your flash, or the top
> of your camera? Your flash breaks - you keep shooting, albeit with some
> limitations. Your camera breaks - your sunk!"
>
> I've also been told that the system is designed to break in stages,
> whenever excessive forces are applied - the flash's shoe breaks before
> the camera's shoe, the camera's shoe breaks before the camera. Ditto,
> the winder base - it's made of a fiberous material specifically to
> absorb impact and protect the body, i.e., the winder breaks before the
> body.
>
> Now if only they made break-away lenses.... ;^)
>
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