>With camera bodies, if the damage looks old (oxidized brass, etc.) and
the
>body appears to function fine, and the price is right, keep it and the
>doinked lenses for beaters. Something to leave in the car so you
won't be
>caught without a camera.
>
That's a great way to loose a camera. I think theives will take
anything these days.....
>Maybe that lonely, lensless Minolta SRT-101 I saw the other day. I'm
not
>sure I'd subject even an OM-10 to the brutality of a car trunk in a
Texas
>summer. OTOH, maybe an OM-77 or OM-88 might be deserving of a good
>baking...
>
Just to invoke the "bad luck" gods, it would certainly come to pass
that when you grab that non-OM camera hoping to catch that once-in-a-
lifetime-I can-retire-tomorrow photo, you start trying to change the
shutter speed by turning the aperture ring around the lens......<g>
Also, heat will kill any film, besides ruining the camera. I can see
this now, you stop the car, run around to the hot trunk, grab the all
metal beastie bullet-proof camera, and holy jesus! hot potato! But,
you're a real man, so you mash that hot brick against your pale, sun-
deprived greenish skin (from reading far too many emails about cameras)
and fire away. A few hours later in the ER of the local hospital: "you
got second degree burns on your face from a *camera*??, Oh, come on,
mister. Look, it's not April Fools day, so why don't you just sit down
here so we can put this jacket with nice long arms on you while we wait
for help, OK?"
<g>
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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