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Canon uses electrical tape to fix $3600 camera body's light-leak



 
 
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Old May 5th 12, 01:34 AM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Wolfgang Weisselberg
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Default Canon uses electrical tape to fix $3600 camera body's light-leak

Bruce wrote:
RichA wrote:
I hope it's better than just electrical tape. Some of the cheap stuff
uses crappy rubber adhesive that dries to powder after a while.
Wouldn't that be nice inside the camera? Likely, they're using an
acrylic adhesive tape. Maybe.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/05...d-Roger-Cicala


Perhaps the repair is being done under contract by Sigma (Sigma
routinely uses sticky tape to hold its lenses together).


No, they're in charge of crashing D4 and D800 cameras and of
misaligned viewfinders therein.

-Wolfgang
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Old May 5th 12, 03:04 AM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Rich[_6_]
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Default Canon uses electrical tape to fix $3600 camera body's light-leak

Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote in
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Bruce wrote:
RichA wrote:
I hope it's better than just electrical tape. Some of the cheap
stuff uses crappy rubber adhesive that dries to powder after a while.
Wouldn't that be nice inside the camera? Likely, they're using an
acrylic adhesive tape. Maybe.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/05...k-III-light-le
ak-fixed-Roger-Cicala


Perhaps the repair is being done under contract by Sigma (Sigma
routinely uses sticky tape to hold its lenses together).


No, they're in charge of crashing D4 and D800 cameras and of
misaligned viewfinders therein.

-Wolfgang


What about the yellowed LCD images?
 




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