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by My Gmail :: Rate this Message:

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Interesting day out yesterday:
http://www.pbase.com/tom_77/dungeness

Tom


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by Lawrence Plummer-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Some very nice photographs, Tom.  At first, I thought that you had slipped back into the Northwest!

          http://www.dungeness.com/refuge/

larry

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E-3 "hip-level" on/off switch

by Michael Collins-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Being a Canadian, I've been out and about a fair bit, with the E-3 slung
over one shoulder - I prefer this to having the strap around my neck and the
camera in front of me. With the strap length I prefer, it puts the camera at
about hip level. Which puts the on/off switch at hip or belt level. Which
all too frequently turns 'on' into 'off'.

Is this a design feature of the camera or of me?

Michael



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Re: E-3 "hip-level" on/off switch

by Mark Dapoz :: Rate this Message:

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Michael Collins wrote:

> Being a Canadian, I've been out and about a fair bit, with the E-3 slung
> over one shoulder - I prefer this to having the strap around my neck and the
> camera in front of me. With the strap length I prefer, it puts the camera at
> about hip level. Which puts the on/off switch at hip or belt level. Which
> all too frequently turns 'on' into 'off'.

Yup, I've had the exact same problem.  When hiking with a backpack the
camera constantly rubs up against the hip belt and turns the camera off.
It's very annoying, the E-1 had much better button placement.  I'm tempted
to try a bit of duct tape :-)
  -mark

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Re: E-3 "hip-level" on/off switch

by Ken Norton :: Rate this Message:

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Michael, when carrying the camera over a shoulder like that, it may be
preferable to hang it so the camera points towards the body. Unless you are
using a pancake lens on an OM body, what happens is the camera will actually
point backwards a little bit and downwards.  It is a very easy thing then to
grab the camera with your right hand and have it automatically land in your
grip correctly without needing to use your left hand at all.  I fought
against this hanging methodology for years, but yielded to the "force" a
couple of years ago.

Another benefit of carrying the camera this way is that for some mysterious
reason, the camera strap is less likely to slip off your shoulder as you
walk. I believe it is because the weight of the lens pulls the camera in
it's direction.

Depending on how long the strap is and the grippiness of design, you can
actually bring the camera up to your eye, shoot, and "drop" the camera in
one smooth move without ever needing to touch the strap. This is great for
those of us crazies that sometimes carry two cameras at a time.

AG

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Re: E-3 "hip-level" on/off switch

by chucknorcutt :: Rate this Message:

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It's a "feecher", of course.

Chuck Norcutt

Michael Collins wrote:
> Being a Canadian, I've been out and about a fair bit, with the E-3 slung
> over one shoulder - I prefer this to having the strap around my neck and the
> camera in front of me. With the strap length I prefer, it puts the camera at
> about hip level. Which puts the on/off switch at hip or belt level. Which
> all too frequently turns 'on' into 'off'.
>
> Is this a design feature of the camera or of me?
>
> Michael

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Re: Dungeness

by chucknorcutt :: Rate this Message:

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I agree.  Some nice stuff there.

plummerl@... wrote:
> Some very nice photographs, Tom.  At first, I thought that you had slipped back into the Northwest!
>
>           http://www.dungeness.com/refuge/
>
> larry
>

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Re: E-3 "hip-level" on/off switch

by Sue Pearce :: Rate this Message:

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> Another benefit of carrying the camera this way is that for some mysterious
> reason, the camera strap is less likely to slip off your shoulder as you
> walk. I believe it is because the weight of the lens pulls the camera in
> it's direction.
>
> Depending on how long the strap is and the grippiness of design, you can
> actually bring the camera up to your eye, shoot, and "drop" the camera in
> one smooth move without ever needing to touch the strap. This is great for
> those of us crazies that sometimes carry two cameras at a time.
>
Or, you can just buy an Upstrap. It really, really works.

Bill Pearce

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Re: E-3 "hip-level" on/off switch

by Piers Hemy :: Rate this Message:

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I agree with AG, it keeps the glassware somewhat better protected too.  But
you may find, as I have, that instead of the on-off switched getting
switched, the front-mounted adjustment wheel gets, um, adjusted.

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Piers
             

-----Original Message-----
From: image66@... [mailto:image66@...] On Behalf Of Ken Norton
Sent: 22 July 2008 01:22
To: olympus@...
Subject: [OM] Re: E-3 "hip-level" on/off switch


Michael, when carrying the camera over a shoulder like that, it may be
preferable to hang it so the camera points towards the body.

--snip  

AG



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Re: Dungeness

by Moose-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Tom Fenwick wrote:
> Interesting day out yesterday:
> http://www.pbase.com/tom_77/dungeness
>  
Once again, some very enjoyable images, Tom.

Moose

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Re: E-3 "hip-level" on/off switch

by Michael Collins-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On 7/21/08 8:21 PM, "Ken Norton" <ken@...> wrote:
> Michael, when carrying the camera over a shoulder like that, it may be
> preferable to hang it so the camera points towards the body. Unless you are
> using a pancake lens on an OM body, what happens is the camera will actually
> point backwards a little bit and downwards.  It is a very easy thing then to
> grab the camera with your right hand and have it automatically land in your
> grip correctly without needing to use your left hand at all.  I fought
> against this hanging methodology for years, but yielded to the "force" a
> couple of years ago.

Thanks for the idea, I'll give it a try. We'll see how strong the "force"
is... 30+ years of habit is a lot to break. Or perhaps the E-5 will address
this :-) .

Michael



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Re: E-3 "hip-level" on/off switch

by Ken Norton :: Rate this Message:

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>
> I agree with AG, it keeps the glassware somewhat better protected too.  But
> you may find, as I have, that instead of the on-off switched getting
> switched, the front-mounted adjustment wheel gets, um, adjusted.


Hmm.  Interesting!  I don't recall ever having a problem with that on my
E-1, but I can see the potential.

AG


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