Walt,
Are you sure it wasn't epoxied to the body? We all know your feelings for
epoxy. ;-)
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 2:45 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Unbelievable Conversion on OM 2S
> I did sort of the same thing once on an OM-4, except my contrivance was
much more elegant! I modified a double-AAA battery penlight, complete with
on/off switch, fashioned a bracket to fasten it to the tripod socket, ran
tiny little wires through a tiny little hole in the battery compartment
cover to a "dummy" battery made from a piece of wooden dowel and two bits of
aluminum foil. It worked.
>
> Then I joined this list and discovered the most valuable piece of
information I have ever learned here -- that for years I had been using the
wrong batteries, which caused me to use excessive profanity and threaten to
do bad things to certain OM bodies. So, I bought a s**tload of 357's, threw
the "accessory" thing away and haven't looked back.
>
> Walt
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> > Perhaps it was once set up as a remote camera? With a 250exp back, I
could
> > see something like that battery hack coming in handy after a while, if
you
> > needed the AE.
> >
> > Since everyone's deemed this an abomination, what would the 'clean'
solution
> > to that problem be?
> >
> >
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