But you've gotta take off the motor drive to get to it, and I only take 'em off
if I need to put in new batteries. On the Leica, it's just a click-stop on the
shutter speed dial below "B" so the MD doesn't have to come off. Except to load
the damn thing, which is a PITA doing it from the bottom. But I'm getting
better at it.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jez Cunningham" <jez.cunningham@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> On 4/12/07, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I wish the Olys had a switch, like the Leica does at one position on the
> > shutter speed dial that turns off the electronics so there's no battery
> > drain.
>
>
> Yours doesn't? Mine has - but it's a little unusual...
> There's a circular switch on the baseplate. You slip in a coin and rotate
> it 90degrees anti-clockwise. A few shiny metal bits fall into your hand -
> these are the cleverly-thought-out reminder tokens. You put them in your
> pocket or camera bag to remind you that the camera is turned off. When you
> want to turn the camera on again, you can store these reminder tokens back
> in the receptacle on the base, and rotate the big one 90 degrees
> clockwise to safely close the little locker.
> Brilliant!
> Jez
>
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