At 22:58 4/19/02, John Hudson wrote:
Have several very long cords as spares ........ they have a nasty habit
of breaking and cracking at the most inopportune moment. Without a spare
you will be sunk; friend Murphy is sure to be close at hand!
jh
You brought two additional points about using PC cords with the OM's:
(a) If you use the OM-1 PC socket, ensure without any doubt by double,
triple, and quadruple checking the switch around it that it's in the "X"
sync position!!!!
(b) With the OM-4 and OM-2S I use a PC cord adapter in the hot shoe if I'm
constantly plugging a monolight cord in and pulling it out again. It has a
contact on the bottom and PC socket on the side; they're about $10-$15 at a
large camera store. Saves wear and tear on the camera PC socket, and if
gets damaged, it gets replaced versus a camera repair that's required to
fix a buit-in PC socket.
Note:
The OM-1[n] "FP" sync position is for the old "focal plane" flash bulbs
which required about 20 milliseconds lead time **before** releasing the
shutter to allow the bulbs to come up to full burn brightness prior to
shutter travel. If used with electronic flash, the flash will be triggered
before the shutter opens!!
-- John
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