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Azohos
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Username: Azohos
Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2011
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 21, 2011 - 12:32 am: | 
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I just found a perfectly working XE-7 (finally!), but the prism is desilvering. Finding a junker to swap it out with seems like it's going to be a needle in a haystack sort of thing. can I swap it with one from an XE-5, or ideally another more easily obtainable minolta?
Thanks,
Andy
(and no, please don't say Leica R3) :P |
Mndean
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Username: Mndean
Post Number: 266
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 21, 2011 - 04:57 pm: |
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Andy,
I would like to say a Minolta SRT 102/202/303/Super model pentaprism would work (the other SRT prisms definitely wouldn't work since they don't have a viewer for the aperture setting, and neither does the XE-5), but I'm not so sure. The parts page in my XE-7 repair manual makes it look almost like, but not exactly identical to the SRT 303b prism I have in hand. You are welcome to the 303b prism if you want to try it, but I offer no guarantees. My XE-7 pentaprism is desilvering as well (though rather slowly), so it seems a problem in that particular model. My SRT prisms don't have the problem.
If it's perfectly working and the desilvering isn't bad, I'd leave it alone until it seriously interfered with viewing the image. My XE-7 works perfectly and is only showing desilvering along the very bottom of the image so I'm leaving it until it gets worse. |
Azohos
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Username: Azohos
Post Number: 4
Registered: 10-2011
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 05:15 pm: |
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Thanks for the offer, but I went out shooting with it yesterday, and it doesn't seem to bother me once I get going. Same thing though, maybe the bottom fifth of the vf. I suppose I'll just wait as well.
It seems like a common problem though. Do you (or anyone) know if this was an issue for the whole production run, or just a hit or miss thing with xe-7s? |
Mndean
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Username: Mndean
Post Number: 268
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 08:20 pm: |
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I really couldn't say, except we aren't the only ones who have had complaints of desilvering. It may be an issue unique to the XE-7 as I haven't seen complaints of the XE-5. Could be production problem or a foam issue as happens to some Olympus and Canon FD prisms. Yours does seem somewhat worse than mine, btw. |
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