Bingo indeed, well done Moose (and Michael too!)
One caveat about the spring loaded pins on the flashgun - the F280 (of
course, not a T-series flash) does not have the same plastic prong
arrangement to retract the pins when not in an Olympus 'dimpled' shoe.
Mounting an F280 in a non-Olympus shoe risks getting it stuck there!
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Michael Kopp
Sent: 03 September 2004 10:38
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OM40 / OMG OM2 OM2n and T10 Ring Flash
--snip
>I don't know if you are aware of it, but the 2 Oly specific contacts on
>the bottom of the T series flashes, including the T-1, are spring
>loaded and pushed back up into the foot when not on an Oly shoe.
Yes, knew that, but thanks for the reminder. Very thorough answer.
>The little
>plastic prong on the bottom of the foot that does this must drop into
>the dimple on the shoe to drop the contacts down. Anything in the
>dimple which keeps the prong from fully deploying will reduce the
>pressure of the flash contacts on the shoe contacts. It's a clever
>design, but less reliable than fixed springy contacts because it lowers
>the contacts against the shoe rather than having them wipe across,
>which tends to clean off corrosion. The single contact in the center
>that is used by all shoes is fixed and wipes across the shoe contact into
place.
>
>I hope that helps.
>
Yes, cleaning the flash contact prongs and the camera shoe contact pads did
the trick.
Cheers,
Michael Kopp
Wellington, New Zealand
>Moose
>
>Michael Kopp wrote:
>
>>The OM40 works fine with a T32, making it produce flashes of varying
>>brightness (power/time) depending on f/stop and distance as it's
>>supposed to do.
>>
>>It does not seem to do this with the T10, which produces what appears
>>to be a full-power flash no matter what the f/stop or distance......
>>
>>
>
>
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