Sounds exactly like the "ARC" plate, I believe they are still available.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Brokaw
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2003 5:25 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Need Tripod and Head advice
>
>
> on 4/7/03 7:01 PM, Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu at lamadoo@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Is it me?
> >
> > I bought a used Bogen 3047 3-way head without instructions.
> >
> > I bolt the camera onto the quick-release plate securely but when I
> > flip the camera to take a horizontal shot, the camera
> rotates around
> > the screw, as if "voting" for straight down instead of "vertical".
> >
> > Against my own advice on do-it-yourself photo equipment,
> I'm thinking
> > of dropping a bolt in the back of the plate so the OM4 can't rotate.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Lama
>
> Digging in the boxes under the table at a camera show a while
> back, I came across (but didn't buy...) a Bogen QR plate,
> hexagonal, with a metal piece with a raised lip on it. From
> the appearance and the package instructions it the lip was
> supposed to align with the back edge of your camera thus
> freezing the alignment on the plate, and in the QR mechanism.
> Perhaps Bogen still makes this variation? I don't know what
> you do if you don't use the hexagonal QR plate (which is my
> situation, and why I didn't buy it.)
> --
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>
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