Thanks Mark and Garth. Ingenious way of "hiding" the sensor.
Bill, KG4LOV
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From: "Garth Wood" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Another basic question
> At 01:27 PM 17/11/2001 -0500, Bill Owens wrote:
> >Sorry to be asking so many simple questions but not being familiar with
Oly
> >equipment.....
> >
> >I picked up a T20 flash this morning for my OM-10. Both the camera and
> >flash manual state that only auto flash, not TTL is available with this
> >combination. However, since there is no sensor on the flash unit, I
would
> >assume that flash cut off is controlled by the OTF sensor in the camera.
> >Wouldn't this be the equivalent of TTL flash?
>
> Bill:
>
> Take a look at the "O" in the "Olympus" wordmark on the front of the T20.
You'll note that its centre is hollow. That's where the auto sensor is.
(Same holds true for the T32.)
>
> Garth
>
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