You can clean and rub the affected areas of the prism till you get to the glass
surface. You can leave it this way and rebuild. The original fungus which was
dark green or black is gone but there is a fine line showing between the clear
glass area and the coated part of the prism. The clear part of the glass still
reflects properly, you would not know the silver coating was gone.
You must either replace the prism (Not available new) or have your prism
stripped and recoated.
John
Greg Heier wrote:
> Interesting... did they say anything about specifically what they did to
> remove the fungus? Did they have to take the top cover off? I have an OM-1
> with this problem. I've hesitated since taking the top cover off appears to
> be a major problem and I dont see any other way (this is on the side of the
> prisim towards the eye-piece).
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: N.Maekawa <maekawa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 11:27 AM
> Subject: [OM] Black M-1
>
> >September issue of Olympus Photography, monthly magazine published by
> >Olympus Japan, has an article on recent case of M-1 black body overhaul.
> >Mr.S. who was a journalist has a black M-1 in totally good condition, but
> it
> >had the problem of mold on prism. Special team for this overhaul in Olympus
> >has successfully repaired the body. It is planned that this black M-1 will
> >be added to the stock of Camera Museum in future.
> >A small picture of the overhauled M-1, that I got from the magazine, can be
> >seen in my website. URL is;
> >http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~rt4n-mekw/m1black.jpg
> >
> >N.Maekawa
> >Japan
> >
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