On Thu, 5 May 2005, swisspace wrote:
> I had a bit of an incident today when walking past a seat the camera
> strap looped around it and wrenched it out of my hand, fortunately it
> was only a foot drop, and the only damage to the 3ti was scratching to
> the plastic on the viewfinder housing where the eyecup fits. Killed any
> slight ideas I had of selling it and buying a 4ti and E-1 as its no
> longer mint.
The eyepiece can easily be replaced, it's the same as the 4Ti's so new parts
may still be available.
> The even worse news is that the F280 was attached and it came away from
> the base. I managed to find the six pins and springs but I will need to
> take the base off to put it back together, has anyone instructions on
> taking this apart. There are four screws which hold the base part to the
> flash, I just wonder how the contacts are made to the pins.
You can find the service manual here:
http://olympus.dementia.org/Hardware/PDFs/F-280_service.pdf
It's held in with a set of screws which have likely ripped out of the plastic
foot (as they should have, it saved your 3Ti's top cover!). Normall you would
replace the foot with a new one, but perhaps you can find some slightly larger
screws to hold it in. Despite the opinion's of others, I wouldn't recommend
epoxy :-)
-mark
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