Kind of horror story you're telling us!
Nice daughter you have, Warren...
I would advise that you give her a camera case for her next birthday
and keep answering NO to her other wishes ;-)
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 03:05:00 EST, WKato@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Some people had knocked the OM-F and its thin metal sheath over
>polycarbonate. But this is the camera I lent to my daughter for 2 years of
>high school photography and I think it was a wise choice. The first time she
>swung it so hard against a brick wall that the plastic shroud on the bottom
>of the mirror box flew off and was rubbing against the aperture mechanism,
>causing erroneous exposures. The next time she dropped it onto a sidewalk and
>bent the heck out of the Vivitar UV filter that was on there. Just today she
>opened her car door and it fell to the pavement and the mirror came unglued.
>I superglued it back on tonite. Do I think that the adjustment may be off? I
>think it will serve its purpose. The reason I used superglue was because it
>goes on very thin and is strong. Hopefully it will approximate the original
>mirror angle and setting. Today she also dropped my OM-77 with 28-70 Sigma.
>There is a metal surround over the focusing mechanism that got a bit of a
>dent in it stopping focusing. I managed to unscrew it and a few bangs with my
>hammer and its working almost as good a new.
>
>I had some of my camera laid out and she tried each one, OM-1, OM-2S, OM-3,
>and OM-4T. She like the OM-3 the best for some reason. I retorted with what I
>had learned in drug education, "NO".
>
>Warren
>
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