Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the advice Jeff...it is sound. Francois Jeff S wrote: > Viewfinder cleanliness is worried about entirely too much; there's no way > that you're going to take a Leica outside of it's plastic baggie and NOT > have it pick up a little, if not from the surroundings, then from the > photographer! I tell people that the time a viewfinder of any sort will > remain spotless shall be measured in nanoseconds. > > Viewfinder windows? Blow off the worst of it, then wipe away any obnoxious > smudges with a reasonably clean finger. Maybe on it's birthday, you can > break out the tissue and cleaning fluid, but so far, I've never mucked up > anything by this route, but have seen a buddy get scratches in (squeaky > clean) VF windows with overuse of a microfiber cloth. Ouch. Probably the > fact that my stuff's NOT squeaky clean is what saves it :-) > > When you take an "Oh yeah, whatever" attitude, NOTHING EVER GOES WRONG WITH > THE CAMERA! Almost. Maybe get someone to chase the dust bunnies out of the > mechanism and give it an oil change from time to time :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@ans.com.au> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Date: Sunday, May 24, 1998 10:40 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Dust... > > >Francois Brunelle wrote: > >> > >> Hello all, > >> I am planning to acquire an M6-0.85x soon. I am a long time SLR user > >> and the dust in the viewfinder is always something that infuriates me. > >> This is why I always buy cameras with removable (interchangeable) > >> viewfinders...I can then spend hours (?!!?) with the compressed air > >> bottle cleaning the specs of dust. > > > >Maybe the reason you have so much dust in the viewfinder is that > >you buy cameras with removable viewfinders. I never saw so much > >dust collect as with an F4. > >