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Re: [OM] Lens flaw

Subject: Re: [OM] Lens flaw
From: AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 07:43:57 -0800 (PST)
That "Lens flaw" looks an aweful lot like a piece of lint stuck
in the focal-plane shutter opening.  With no film in the camera,
put the shutter on "bulb", remove the lens and look at the film
opening very carefully while holding the shutter open. You will
see a very tiny (probably only 3mm in length) piece of lint
stuck in the bottom of the film opening.  Remove lint with
tweezers, and go on with life.

If it was hoop shaped it would be a "flying shutter string".

Impossible for the lens to have caused this unless there was a
huge hair sticking out from the back that was pressing against
the film.  A tumbleweed attached to the rear element wouldn't
cause this type of mark.

The fact that you saw it appear with the use of the newly
acquired lens is purely coincidental.

AG-Schnozz

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