Pete Prunskunas wrote:
Using a coin to open the battery compartment on OMs can easily
mar the cover. Has anyone found a better way, maybe a plastic
coin?
>Pete
From: dreammoose <dreammoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Opening battery compartment without marring
Micto-Tools <http://www.micro-tools.com/Merchant2/handtool.htm> has a
couple of solutions. Somebody was selling plastic coin-like things on
*Bay, but I haven't seen them for a while. I use the plastic Micro-Tools
tool. The one weakness is that it's not strong enough to open a cap
someone has really torqued down with a coin, but those are always marked
up already.
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 13:16:28 -0700
From: "Timpe, Jim" <Jim.Timpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [OM] Opening battery compartment without marring
I find a DeWalt three quarter horse rotary impact driver with an appropriate
tungsten coated bit on it usually does the trick for those really 'torqued
down' covers......
All this brouhaha about special tools and coins with ground edges to
take off a battery or MD cover...
Wait, wait, wait, I can't fit my motor drive today at the races
because I don't have my special battery compartment/MD cover removing
tool! Like I need something else that I need to carry while I hump
all my gear up to the Corkscrew at Laguna or Turn 2 at Sears! Sheesh!
:-D
I must be lost...I must be in...the Leica user's group! ;-)
I find a penny works fine...
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:32:53 -0700
From: "Dave Dougherty" <davdou@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] ARRGGH!! Scratched Negatives Long
Fellow Zuiks,
<SNIP>
I had an 8x 10 cropped and mounted on a black mount with a 1/4" border.
Photo looks great, except there is a white line running horizontally across
the print about 1/4" down from the top. A check of the negative strip shows
that the NEGATIVES ARE SCRATCHED!!!! It isn't the fault of my OM-2 as
another roll of film shot on the same day has no scratches, nor are there
any on countless other negatives shot with this camera! The scratch runs
the entire length of the 36 exp. roll. Film was processed at a local "Pro"
lab!
This is about to drive me nuts! This kind of experience is why I am more
and more leaning to going digital! Am I P---ed? You bet!
Dave Dougherty
Well, Dave, all is not necessarily lost...you could get a good scan
of the neg. If the scanner has digital ICE, the scratch may be gone.
If not, one could still get rid of it using the Healing Brush tool in
Photoshop 7.
You could then generate an 8X10 on a LightJet or similar......just my 2¢.
-Stephen Scharf
--
2001 CBR600F4i - Fantastic!
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