I recall the first time I found a "dead engineer" inside a camera. It
was an OM-1 I repaired in the late '70's. I removed the top cover to
find a largely-developed moth about 3/8th inch long, trapped between the
top cover and the meter's circuit board. Around it lay the debris of
it's cocoon. Obviously it had never spread it's wings - literally or
figuratively!
We could never decide - had it been somehow been trapped there during
assembly (a joke maybe? naw-w-w-w!), or had it's mom deposited it
sometime after it had been sold to the owner? Either way, it was
somewhat disquieting to think about - had it yearned to fly in space if
never found, to seek light it never saw? Sad!
Since then, I've seen all sorts of "invaders" in cameras - the most
disgusting (so far) being ants. They were everywhere! Almost as bad as
sand! Yech! And I've seen dozens of lenses with cocoon debris inside -
people leave their equipment is the strangest places, it's no wonder
bugs get inside!
Arni R Kjartansson wrote:
>
> Lex wrote:
> > Reminds me, at the last camera show I attended a dealer showed me a lens
> > that had a large dead insect (looked like a male mosquito or a mayfly)
> > trapped inside. We pondered this for a moment and decided that someone
> had
> > to have placed it in there deliberately as a joke. It couldn't have
> crawled
> > in their while small and lived long enough to grow that big.
> > -----------
> > Lex Jenkins
>
> Well, it could have been a fungivore : )
> --
> Arni R Kjartansson
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > "Budda-budda-budda!!!" - Sgt. Rock
> > ======================================================================
> > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:22:00 -0000
> > Subject: [OM] insects and lenses
> >
> > Saw this here:
> > http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/catalog/cl11.htm
> > "50/1.8 Olympus Zuiko, with caps, instructions, and nice box with foam,
> > small dead insect and something that looks like lint (but might be fungus)
> > inside the lens, else EX+ $30.00"
> > - --
> > Arni R Kjartansson
> >
> >
> >
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