Hi Dirk,
Tom
At 2000 June 17 - Saturday 21:56, Dirk and Carla Wright
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
spoke about *[OM] I did it!!...* saying
> I finally received my spanner wrenches from Micro-Tools, so I could
> now take off the top cover from my OM's to deal with the rotted foam
> around the pentaprism. I'm gald to say that the procedure was a
> success! I'm not sure how critical this foam was for making the camera
> light-tight, so I only removed it without replacing it with anything.
> It appears to me that as long as there is a shoe mounted on the
> camera, that the foam around that area is not required. The foam at
> the front of the pentaprism may be more important, I don't know.
> If my film comes back all fogged or the exposures were way off due
> to light leaks around the sensor, then I'll have to start thinking
> about doing this really right. I was just glad to get that stuff
> out of there before it damaged the mirror coating on the
> pentaprism. Only my OM-2n had the foam around the shoe, not my
> OM-1. I was impressed with the quality of the circuit boards inside
> these cameras. They both had what appeared to be glass-epoxy boards
> with gold plated sliding contacts.
My guess is that it would only affect the viewfinder. All viewfinder
lite has to be closed off from the film chamber, or the light from
the eyepiece would fog the film.
Tom
------------
Tom Trottier ICQ: 57647974 TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx
<<<<Abacurial Information Technology Consulting>>>>
400 Slater St. Suite 415, Ottawa ON Canada K1R 7S7
__o +1 613 291-1168 fax:594-5412 (877)247-8796
_ \< Vote for your favourite Olympus camera at
(+)/'(+) http://www.freevote.com/booth/fav_camera
< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
|