That's really not too bad Chuck. I think you put alot more thought into
it than most would.
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Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I scratched my M*n*lt* SRT-101 mirror the same way. A friend of my
> father's gave it to him years ago and it was passed on to me. I had it
> sitting around in its case for another bunch of years. I decided to
> check it out one day and somehow in handling it I turned the mirror lock
> lever without realizing it and locked the mirror up. I didn't realize
> it because I was so unfamiliar with the camera I didn't know it had a
> mirror lock. I then dry fired it once and realized the mirror hadn't
> come down. On removing the lens I noticed the apparently original
> mirror foam was getting gooey and suspected the mirror had gotten stuck
> in the goo. I carefully slid a little knife blade between the mirror
> and gummy foam and soon realized that gummy foam was not the problem.
> Only then did the brain turn on and ask whether this contemporary of an
> OM-1 had a mirror lock-up lever. Sure enough it did and I had flipped
> it up somehow. Presto. Mirror drops down immediately upon releasing
> said lever. Sadly, I realized that my very careful knife insertion had
> left a fine scratch near the bottom edge of the previously pristine
> mirror. Too late smart. I felt like a stupid idiot.
>
> Anyhow, the 58mm f/1.2 is still in fine condition... I think.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Moose wrote:
>
>
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