> In case I didn't mail that bit to the list... the OM2SP I returned had the
> disconcerting thing of having these tiny mites that crawled across the
> focussing screen at slow speed. I would guess its a dust mite of some
> description; it appears black when looking through the viewfinder and is a
> most definite off white to grey colour when you remove the lens and find it
> either on the outer surface of the screen or on the pentaprism glass.
> Removing it is futile. Your camera has more of them... and eggs too.
>
> I heard that the way to kill book mites is to wrap them in layers of
> plastic bags and put them in the fridge for 24 hours. The OM2Sp I had
> received two such treatments. Once in the lower section of the fridge. The
> little critters survived that. The second was more hostile and subjected
> them to 48 hours in the freezer. I saw no mites after that but the mirror
> came off two days later so I don't know whether the two events were related.
>
> Anyone else seen mites in their camera? I've seen it in two separate camera
> bodies.
>
> Cheers
> Oben
>
Yikes! Now I've got to watch out for bugs in my cameras... I think if I spot
any I'll try to put the body inside a house being 'tented' for termites.
I've read that if you have antique furniture that might have bugs (wood
worms?) in it you put it inside the tenting house. The gas they fill the
house tent with kills all bugs, but since its a gas I don't think it leaves
any residues. Seems likely that it would get thoroughly inside a body with
the front and back open...
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
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