I've replaced the foam seals on almost all my cameras without any problems.
I've used craft foam, foam cut from disposable black paint "brushes" (the
foam ones obviously), or a mouse pad. You can keep it in place with friction
fit, or use double sided sticky tape, according to the place it needs it.
It'll likely cost you less than $3, may as well experiment before trashing
it. Just be practical, you're trying to block light with some slightly
squeezed foam. It's not rocket science.
I have a friend who keeps a piece of duct tape on his lieca as a light seal.
I wouldn't recommend this on an olympus, might be okay for a lieca. :-)
If you take the trash can advice, I'll pay the shipping to send it to me, so
as I can put it in my trash can. :-)
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: Pawel Golik <pgolik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus OM-10
On Tuesday 14 May 2002 03:34 pm, William Sommerwerck wrote:
> I strongly advise your daughter to perform the following three steps:
>
> 1. Find a trash can.
>
> 2. Position the camera over the can.
>
> 3. Release the camera.
>
> The OM-10 is not junk, by any means. But a camera body that leaks light
> almost certainly has something considerably worse wrong with it than just
> deteriorated seals. This is unlikely to be a cheap repair.
And I strongly advise to disregard William's advice. I've seen many Olympus
bodies (including OM-10s) that leaked light due to foam deterioration. Any
camera repairman can fix that cheaply, in fact a reasonably skilled hobbyist
armed with an old mousepad and glue can achieve the same results. You can
also buy foam kits from www.zuiko.com and do the replacement yourself. And
while OM-10 is low-end model of the OM line it's still a good general
photography tool, light and nice to use. A manual adapter is a good idea,
they are not hard to find.
Pawel
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