Did you try taping over the third contact on the bottom of the T-20? It might
be trying to talk to the E-1's TTL-OTF circuitry.
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Subject: [OM] Vintage E-1 matters
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:26:33 +1300
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>Hi all
>
>As some might recall, a while ago I bought one of the now vintage E-1
>cameras. I am still coming to grips with some of the features. Or not as the
>case may be. If you think I'm slow you should meet my sis.... :-)
>
>First up, I have been taking photos of an indoor plant in flower, and the
>ambient lighting needs spicing up a little to bring out the colour of the
>flowers.
>Having heard about the T20 flash being OK in the E-1, and having bought a
>few of these units on the O-Boy!! site, I thought I'd give it a whirl.
>
>Batteries in, ready light comes on. Fire!. Nope, no dice. Not at all.
>
>Out with the trusty OM4Ti, fit the T20, and it fires first pop (or should that
>be
>"pops first fire" ?).
>
>So - why no action on the E-1?
>
>Incidentally, as for the OMs, the flash socket protector on the E-1 has gone
>AWOL, just as those have on the OMs except where (as is usual now) I have
>sellotaped them in place. No problem in this regard with the OM 2000
>however !!
>
>Second E-1 issue, several times when I have been trying to set Custom
>White Balance with a sheet of white paper (indoors, for photographing old
>prints), the camera refuses to accept the setting. I think that maybe on one
>occasion I persuaded it to do so by increasing the ISO setting, but in
>general, if it refuses once, that's it for all time, in that setting,.
>
>Why? and how do I get around the problem?
>
>Brian
>
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