And you can avoid all this by ignoring a little dust on the screen or
limiting yourself to dry compressed air as a cleaning tool.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] HELP!! Am I screwed for my trip?
> The advice about further cleaning and rinsing in distilled water and
> making sure it is properly seated in the camera is all good and I hope
> it works. I've cleaned screens and never had the problem you describe.
> Although the fine fresnel lines are delicate, the screen is conceptually
> just a piece of plastic that needs to be clean and sitting in the right
> place. If you have handled it roughly (and it doesn't take much!) and
> damaged the tiny circular prisms molded into the flat, bottom side of
> the plastic, it is not repairable and must be replaced.
>
> In future, try blowing dust away with air from a can or one of those
> little rubber bulb with soft brush gadgets sold for cleaning dust off of
> lenses. Wet cleaning and all the handling of a screen should be a last
> resort. Nothing that isn't really really soft and gentle should ever
> touch either side, and especially the flat side.
>
> Now I know what you should do with some of that money saved up for a
> 50/2 or Fuji 6x9. Get a second body. Anybody as involved with their
> photography as you needs a back-up camera body. Since you are remote
> from Oly repair facilities, you should get one that has been CLAed
> recently or maybe buy a US one and have it shipped directly to John or
> Clint, who can fix it up and send it on to you. If you don't like
> carryig around something you aren't using, put different film in each
> body. Fast and slow, low and high contrast, slide and print, B&W and
> color; think of the expanded possibilities when you don't have to finish
> a roll to do somtehing different!
>
> Moose
>
> Albert wrote:
>
> > So I'm trying to clean the dust off my OM in preparation for my trip
> > IN TWO DAYS..
> >
> > And I pop the focus screen out, and see if that's what is dirty..
> > Well, I (for some god unknown reason) try to clean it. And now it's
> > very dark and cloudy! Warm water and soap! I thought that was
> > suppose to do the trick, no??
> >
> > Anything I can do now to to salvage the situation?? PLEASE don't tell
> > me I'm going to be OM'less for my trip!
> >
> > And no, I'm just about the only person in Taiwan with an OM.. I can't
> > find another screen!!
> > Why do I do this to myself!!
>
>
>
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