purduealum91 Posted March 4, 2010 Share #1 Posted March 4, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) On the suggestion of someone on this forum, I ordered an Olympus VF-1 from Amazon. It arrived today as did my X1. Lo and behold, the VF-1 will NOT fit. I could maybe get it half way in the hot shoe. Darn it. I was hoping this would work. Anyone else have similar issues? Thanks! Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MitchoIankov Posted March 4, 2010 Share #2 Posted March 4, 2010 I had similar issue with a remote flash trigger. It turns out it was a bit too wide. I used decorating knife to trim it a bit on the sides (it was plastic). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Lueck Posted March 4, 2010 Share #3 Posted March 4, 2010 On the suggestion of someone on this forum, I ordered an Olympus VF-1 from Amazon. It arrived today as did my X1. Lo and behold, the VF-1 will NOT fit. I could maybe get it half way in the hot shoe. Darn it. I was hoping this would work. Anyone else have similar issues? Thanks! Tom Hi Tom. Yes, I had the problem too. Screw the plate (two screws) at the foot of Viewfinder off and grind 1 / 10 to 2 / 10 mm Material on this. Then it fits! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
larbel Posted March 5, 2010 Share #4 Posted March 5, 2010 I think it was me who suggested it I saw it on another forum and the guy told me it's the VF1 but I didn't ask if he had to do any modifications... Sorry... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
purduealum91 Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share #5 Posted March 8, 2010 After some slight sanding, the Oly VF works great! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsrockit Posted March 8, 2010 Share #6 Posted March 8, 2010 Is it relativelty accurate? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalbernd Posted October 25, 2012 Share #7 Posted October 25, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) UPDATE! I have bought, for a sharp price a second hand Olympus VF-1, after reading this post I assume that it won't fit on my X2. But it fit perfectly, the man that I buy the viewfinder from had used it on a Oly pen. So maybe the Flash socket is different between the X1 and X2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigHat Posted October 26, 2012 Share #8 Posted October 26, 2012 Mine fitted no issue. Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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