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Camfan
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Username: Camfan
Post Number: 3
Registered: 05-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 01:52 am: | 
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I just noticed that a speck of dust in my viewfinder was actually quite mobile! To my horror there was a tiny mite in the view finder. I hope there aren't more but these things tend to breed! Any bright ideas out there for a safe way to annilihate these things without damaging my camera, i've got rid of the one but there could be more. Its a Nikon FM btw.
Maybe someone has a good idea!
Dan |
Wernerjb
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Username: Wernerjb
Post Number: 159
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 02:16 am: |
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This seems to me like another CAFOM story ("cameras are full of mysteries"), although I have heard someone say there was a pack of spiders living in his camera, and every now and then one of them showed up (to say hallo?).
You could try to suffocate the vermin: put the camera in a plastic bag, get out all air by means of one of those household deep freeze vacuum pumps and then seal it. Or you could try deep freezing below 20 degrees centigrade for a while. Dehydrating the creatures will be more difficult. Insecticide inside a sealed bag is another method to consider, but this also will take some time, W. |
Charlie
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Username: Charlie
Post Number: 75
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 04:18 am: |
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Suffocation might not eliminate any eggs. Maybe heat, put in a dark plastic bag in the sun for a few hours. |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 302
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 08:14 pm: |
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I once bought a nonworking Praktisix and found the remains of some quite large creatures in it, which had built a colony in the shutter speed gearing... much too big to fit through any openings in the body. They could have hatched there and grown, but that begs the question of who went in there and laid the eggs.....
it was sort of the camera equivalent of stories about squirrels making nests in car engines.... |
Kiron_kid
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Username: Kiron_kid
Post Number: 1
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 09:25 pm: |
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Awhile ago, while using my FM to burn some Kodak HEI, I too, noticed a Mite or Tick, cruising around inside the Pentaprism. It eventually disappeared, or is in hibernation?
Kiron Kid |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 304
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 03:21 pm: |
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obviously a shutterbug |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 58
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 01:08 am: |
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GROAN! |
Dgillette4
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Username: Dgillette4
Post Number: 51
Registered: 04-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 07:07 am: |
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Probably was the on site (Engineer) |
Rick_oleson
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Username: Rick_oleson
Post Number: 305
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 08:16 pm: |
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sorry. i knew it was a terrible thing to do but i couldn't help myself..... |
Camfan
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Username: Camfan
Post Number: 4
Registered: 05-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 08:38 pm: |
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Too good to pass that one by eh Rick!
Well it hasn't returned so i'm hoping it was a solo mite. My googling suggests that a high level dose of CO2 might do the trick but as i haven't seen any sign of further mite incursions i think i'll leave well enough alone! |
Kkl122002
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Username: Kkl122002
Post Number: 23
Registered: 05-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 - 01:46 am: |
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Using CO2 can not kill them, especially their eggs. I think, may be you the way of killing Termites to kill the bugs. Seal it with plastic bag, fill with pesticide and leave it there for a couple of days. |
Ade
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Username: Ade
Post Number: 4
Registered: 02-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 05:29 am: |
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i've read about this on several occasions in amateur photographer,sealing in a plastic bag with a pesticide is only way to eradicate pests and eggs. |
Olly_ympus
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Username: Olly_ympus
Post Number: 14
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 11:00 am: |
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Hope I never have a problem like this myself. But if I did I would seal the camera in a plastic bag with moth balls for a few days. It won't harm the camera and will kill any critters and their offspring. |
Ethostech
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Username: Ethostech
Post Number: 76
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 06:40 pm: |
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This issue has been around since Canada Balsam was first used to cement glass components - and of course, lens elements.
I have no information as to the source of the bugs but it is known they are attracted by and feed off the Canada Balsam.
Best way to banish them is a mechanical stripdown and clean out. Then saturate the stripped camera with a light dose of UV. |
Fallisphoto
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Username: Fallisphoto
Post Number: 29
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 04:46 pm: |
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Worst I ever heard of was an old wooden Ansco camera, stored with the back open and the bellows extended, on a shelf in a barn. It had a bird's nest in it. |
Polaski
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Username: Polaski
Post Number: 10
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 11:51 am: |
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If the mothballs don't work, go to an exterminator supply store. They have a powder that vaporizes and kills eveything in the area..
That said, you are only want a pinch of the stuff, and do the transfer outside in fresh air, using gloves and stuff. I used it once to sanitize a small wooden antique in a large plastic trash bag.. Non-corrosive, though, so the gear should be safe. |
Alanstarkie2001
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Username: Alanstarkie2001
Post Number: 7
Registered: 09-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 02:35 pm: |
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You could try exposing it to a radioactive isotope for a few days but beware of mutations! Personally I'd leave it to live out its life peacefully - probably won't do much harm and will keep you company. Think of it a a traveling companion. |
