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Subject: [OM] Re: OM Focusing Screen Cleaning
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:33:17 +1200
Hi,

In reply to what Carlos wrote below, I suggest there are two possibilities:

(a) dust mite  (b) there is a form of small mite that lives in books and 
seemingly does no harm - about the same size - pale brown in colour.

I've seen them too.

Brian
> Hi all,
> 
> >From: Fernando Gonzalez Gentile <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >BTW, anyone has/had a tiny arthropod living and wandering happy inside the
> >finder assembly?
> 
> Yup, mee too! I saw some kind of living form wandering over the 2-4 screen
> of my OM-2S -- I quickly got the EOS-300D (with the crappy 18-55) and took
> this picture thru the 2S' viewfinder:
> 
> <http://cjss.sytes.net/etc/bicho.jpeg> you can see the centre circle of the 
> 2-4
> in the upper left, as a reference.
> 
> After removing the screen, I discovered that the 'thing' was over the
> condenser(?) lens of the prism, so I grabbed the Zuiko 80/4 + 65-116 +
> Kindai adapter in order to get a better picture... but it was too late!
> 
> So far, no more appearances of the creature -- maybe the present 2-13
> doesn't taste as good as the 2-4 :-)


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