At 19:43 1/16/01, Chris O'Neillpondered:
Just outta curiosity, anybody know *which* case that is???
It's a semi-hard case for the OM-10QD, a later OM-10 model with a data
back. It's the reason for the slight sculpting and holes in the back. The
sides are sculpted for an OM-10's flat sides, not the angled ones the
single-digit OM-1 through 4T have. The nose is definitely an OM-10 case
nose, with the Olympus scuplted into it. The OM-10 case bottoms do not fit
on the single-digit bodies very well because they are not shaped for the
sides properly. I don't think the OM-PC case, which is different, will
even fit a single digit. You can see the back of one with an OM-10QD in it
and the nose on Hans' eSIF site:
http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/veluwen/om-sif/casegroup/cases_for_om-10-20-30-40.htm
Many cases for the single-digit bodies are leather. The original black
ones were a coarse pebble-grain with tripod screw in the bottom. Later
ones were brown leather ranging from a very hard saddle leather to a softer
dark brown one. I have seen one leatherette single-digit case nearly the
same as the softer dark brown leather one, and a similar dark brown
color. The dark brown ones fit the OM-2S through OM-4T better with their
fixed hot shoes. The older ones fit the OM-1 through OM-2n like a glove,
especially with a 50/1.4 on it. They are difficult, and some are
impossible (very old black pebble grain with tripod screw), to fit on the
later bodies with fixed hot shoes, or if a 50/1.2 is on the body. All the
single-digit cases I've seen do not have the Olympus name sculpted into the
nose, it's a piece of plastic (??) attached to the nose.
See Hans' eSIF site under the case group for other cases:
http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/veluwen/om-sif/casegroup.htm
-- John
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