Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/23

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Subject: [Leica] Spider in my R9/DMR body
From: michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Sun Sep 23 13:00:58 2007
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Maybe a vacuum cleaner can do the trick?
Also depends if the spider is on the outside of the groundglass or oo 
the inside. iin the latter case you first should remover the 
groundglass. Which canbe done by yourself.

Good luck.

Michiel Fokkema


Philippe Orlent wrote:
> Depends of its size ofcourse. It could look like a dust spot, too. The 
> strange thing to me looks the fact that it moves over the VF, thus 
> disturbing your focusing concentration.
> Just my 2 (maybe over-imaginative) cents ;-)
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 
> Op 23-sep-07, om 21:46 heeft Philippe Amard het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> If the spider dies INSIDE, you're not so well Philippe
>> Phil...x
>>
>>
>> Philippe Orlent wrote:
>>
>>> Cloroform on a piece of cotton, locked in together with the R9 in a  
>>> plastic container?
>>> Philippe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Op 23-sep-07, om 18:13 heeft Vick Ko het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> Hmmm.  Probably it is only in the viewfinder and not the film-to- 
>>>> lens area.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe lure it out with a fly?  Or a spider of the opposite sex?
>>>>
>>>> ....Vick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org
>>>> [mailto:lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> stasys1@cox.net
>>>> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 12:06 PM
>>>> To: lug@leica-users.org
>>>> Subject: [Leica] Spider in my R9/DMR body
>>>>
>>>> Hi All- While doing some landscape photography this am here at  
>>>> Lake  Tahoe-
>>>> I discovered a small spider while looking thru the viewfinder. It  
>>>> would move
>>>> with every shot- but it stayed out of the picture area. I tried to  
>>>> shake it
>>>> out when I took the lens off-but no luck.  Any suggestions?  I have  
>>>> no clue
>>>> how it got in-since I always keep a lens on the body. Maybe the  
>>>> camera body
>>>> came with a spider egg a couple of years ago? Stasys
>>>>
>>>>
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