Saving plastic's not the point. If you examine the hot shoe closely on among other cameras the like *ist-D and Ds, the hot shoe equipped prisms for the LX the ME and probably other cameras as well, you'll see a plastic pin, under the metal leaf spring on the same side as the cutout on the flash shoe cover. That plastic pin is an isolation switch to keep the hot shoe from being live when a flash is connected to the PC socket, (yea, what really makes sense on a *ist-Ds, since it doesn't have a PC socket but that's another matter). The cutout keeps the spring in the switch from being under stress while the hot shoe cover is in place. There may also be some other reason to keep that switch open when the hot shoe cover is in place, but I can't imagine why...
mike wilson wrote: >> From: "Ken Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2008/05/26 Mon PM 09:32:56 GMT >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: Re: Don't leave home with out one. >> >> >>> Is there really any point to one? >>> >> Not sure, but on previous cameras I've succeeded in bending the metal flash >> bracket that it fits in. The bracket is less likely to bend if it got this >> plastic slide in in place. Haven't bent the bracket on any camera that I >> have the plastic slide in on. >> > > All of the modern ones I have seen have only one side to go in the grooves > and a locating tag for the other. Saves a farthing's worth of plastic. > > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
