I shoulda got all this together before I posted to begin with. I hate replying
to myself, but here goes:
I just took a look at the foot of my puny little FL-20. I assume it's the same
as the rest of the digital flashes. It has no pushy-uppy hickey, which leads
me, rightly or wrongly, to conclude that, since the E-1 hot shoe has a place
for the pushy-uppy hickey to drop down into, Olympus intended, without
admitting as much, that we could use our T flashy things and live happily ever
after -- at least those of us old enough to know how to work with guide numbers
and non-TTL flash and that sort of old-timey, old-fart, primitive crap.
And it's so much easier with digital, when, besides changing aperture, you can
change "film" speeds from 100, to 200, 400, 800, etc. Couldn't do that way
back when you were stuck with whatever speed film you loaded. It also helps to
remember that a couple of fingers over the flash -- three in the case of the
T45 -- cuts light output in half.
Walt, who learned flash photography with Sylvania blue flashbulbs and Honeywell
potato mashers
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
> I just made a careful comparison of the contact positions on the feet of a
> T20,
> T32, and T Power Control 1. As I expected, they are identical. Comparing
> these
> contacts with the contacts in the hot shoe of an E-1, the only one that will
> mate up the big center one, which, I think, fires the flash. (It must,
> because
> it does.) The other two flash contacts touch none of the other E-1 contacts,
> which are way in the back. There's even the expected indentation in the E-1
> hot
> shoe to accommodate the little pushy-uppy hicky that retracts the contacts
> when
> mounting a flash, thereby, when it drops into the hole, allowing the contacts
> to
> flop back down to mate with whatever uninsulated bit of metal they can find.
> In
> the case of the T flashes and the E-1, that's naught but the center contact.
>
> As a more practical matter, I have used all three of the aforementioned
> flashes
> on my E-1 and nothing's fried yet.
>
> Anyway, be careful out there. No warranty, either express or implied, is
> made
> relative to this information, nor should anyone sustaining damage by acting
> thereon expect the slightest form of either indemnification or apology.
>
>
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