Hello Moose,
don't know about the shoe cord, but my OM4,
Ti-modified works fine with a T32 (via hot shoe). The
viewfinder light does flicker to confirm successful
TTL operation.
hope this helps
Jose
--- dreammoose <dreammoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here's a question for the wonderful collective
> knowledge of the group.
>
> I picked up a TTL Auto Shoe Cord T 0.6 so I could do
> TTL flash with
> OM-PC bodies (No immediate need, I have OM-4 bodies
> and Shoe 4s and TTL
> cord adapters for OM-2n bodies, just Zuikoholism at
> work.) To check out
> the cord quickly, I connected it to the closest
> appropriate camera at
> hand, an OM-4 with the T(i) circuit modification and
> a T32. It didn't
> work properly at first. Checking, I found the hot
> shoe contacts needed
> cleaning, which fixed all but one problem.
>
> This led me to check out flash operation with
> several cameras. I found
> that TTL flash worked properly with most of my
> bodies, except.: I have
> two OM-4 bodies, both with the 4Ti circuit
> replacement, as determined by
> the tests shown in Clint's contribution on the
> subject on Mark's site
>
<http://olympus.dementia.org/Hardware/OM-4_circuits.html>
> . On both of
> these cameras, everything works except the flash
> ready light does not
> flicker to confirm successful TTL flash operation.
> The light on the
> flash flickers, but not the one in the viewfinder;
> it simply goes dark
> until the flash is fully charged. This is true of
> both bodies, via hot
> shoe or TTL cord, with a flash that properly
> operates the viewfinder
> flash ready light on an OM-2n, OM-PCs and an OM-4Ti.
> The OM-4 manual 'B'
> says this should work, but I don't have an OM-4 with
> the original
> circuit to check Do I happen to have two 'Mod 6'
> circuit cameras with
> the same failure, or is this just the way the new
> circuit works with the
> old LED setup (maybe not enough current to activate
> the old LED?) or is
> it a common error in the upgrade or ..........?
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Moose
>
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