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Re: [OM] is it necessary...?

Subject: Re: [OM] is it necessary...?
From: Mark Dapoz <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:28:33 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:

> The diopter adjustment lenses in my 4 are quite dusty, or I'd better say
> dirty. I wish it wouldn't be necessary to remove the top cover just to clean
> them since this doesn't seem to be a simple procedure. I can't find another
> way, or is there? 

No, the only way to clean the internals of the eyepiece is to remove it from
the body and completely disassemble it.

>                       BTW this early 4 model diopter adjustment outer lense
> seems to be plastic, as for the sound it makes after soft percussion. Is all
> the diopter adjustment feature made of plastic optics?

Do NOT apply much pressure to the cover glass of the eyepiece, it is made of
a very thin piece of glass and breaks very easily.  All of the optics in the
eyepiece are made of coated glass, not plastic.
                                -mark


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