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     Harryrag Tinkerer Username: Harryrag Post Number: 178 Registered: 05-2008 Rating: N/A |
... with Minolta SR-Ts and vintage Petris. I have no idea whether e.g. Canons can be mistreated like described. In my SLRs however the damping effect of the foam is neglectable, the Minoltas have a spring that serves as a shock absorber and the foam or fabric strip simply reduces the noise of the mirror stroke, without it metal would bang against metal. For some time I used a 101 with a bare mirror bumber plate just to prove it did not harm the camera in any way, but the ones being photographed did not much like the noise. Any sort of thin velvet textile material can be used. Forget about foam, even the originally sealed mirror strips I ordered not long before Minolta's shutdown have turned gooey after not even a decade, of course I do not know how long they had been stored on the service's stockpile. |