OLYMPUS 147036 FOOTSWITCH OLYMPUS RS 27 REPLACES

Having bought the RS27 foot switch we have discovered that it does not reverse more than a few is any seconds at a time and that it often will switch back to the very beginning of the voice document. This has made it extremely hard to work with and I long for the good old days when you bought something and it worked the first time. Call me old fashioned.

This Foot Switch will only work if you have a certain type of Olympus DSS Player Software, not just any version. Just make sure you know which software you have or need to purchase before purchasing this foot switch to make it work. I thought a foot switch was a footswitch but apparently not. Do your homework. The sellers do not mention this fact which I think is a mistake. It should say it take software to make it work and not only software but a certain software.

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I've been doing freelance transcription for almost 10 years now, and this is the first time I've had to upgrade my foot pedal to a newer model. This one is replacing my old RS 25, which still works just fine, but to upgrade to the latest (and better) DSS player version 7, I had to upgrade my foot switch as well. This is pretty much the same thing...standard model with right rewind, left FF, and center play. It works well and had good plug and play functionality. No problems whatsoever. This seems to be another solid piece of equipment, and I'll use it for years to come...at least until they make me upgrade again to use a new version of the player.

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I have found I can only operate this foot pedel with my shoe off--the FF and Rewind are so slightly elevated above the center Play area, I can never hit the right area with my shoe on because I can't feel where the edges of the FF and Rewind are.

The bigger problem is that, totally counter-intutive, Rewind is on the right and Fast Forward is on the left! Why would they do this? After months of using it, my intuition is still to go to the left for Rewind and to the right for Fast Forward.

If there was any other foot controller available I'd buy it, but there isn't, and it does work but could be so much better.

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Most people are unaware that Olympus is the dominant manufacturer of endoscopes (flexible medical cameras pushed into orifices like the sphincter). They are quite respected for this, um... technology, but I must now invite you to consider metaphors apt to those glittering proctological exploits as we put one of their comparatively mundane transcription instruments on the table. Relax and spread your wallet.

The 147036 foot pedal is well-constructed and operates with no mechanical issues that I can see. You could land ass-first on the thing (bluntly characterizing my own acquisition of the device) and it probably wouldn't break. But I have to agree with everyone else contending with the ridiculous software upgrade policy Olympus has put in effect--this device should work with every version of their transcription software, which is overpriced as it is.

Because I am unwilling to fork over $150 for some jainky software upgrade I'm actually using my new pedal as a plugged-in peripheral to the DS5000 cradle. It cannot be set to transcription mode in this context, necessitating a bizarre tap-dancing, butt-chafing protocol to get anything done. And swallow this--if I accidentally touch the left pedal my DS5000 jumps to a new file, requiring a tedious, manual relocation to the abandoned edit point! I have something like 400 pages of text to transcribe and I'm seriously worried about hemorrhoids.

I'm sure I'll squeeze through somehow, but I could have done without this additional constriction to my creative output.