Tom...too late :-(. Within a week it was gone. But I have had a chat
with the service chap in Olympus Service Tokyo. Not all fungus can
be cleaned - esp if they have "hardened". I asked this of him because
I have a 55mm F1.2 that has a fungus problem. Alas, I never bothered
to try to have the 55mm cleaned.
Sean
P.S. I'm assuming the cellulose gunk in the viewfinder is fungus too
Tom Trottier wrote:
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> So offer 5900 yen for this yucky thing. You could ask Olympus Japan
> for an estimate. Or frame it in your living room.
>
> Tom
>
> At 2000 June 18 - Sunday 12:02, Sean Chan <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> spoke about *[OM] M-1 in Tokyo...* saying
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've seen a 2nd M-1 in my life now :-). There's one available in
> > MapCamera, Shinjuku, Tokyo. It's going Yen 59000 (US$556). Yes,
> > I was thinking to myself "So cheap??". So I had the saleschap take
> > it out to have a look. Externally, I can't see anything wrong - no
> > dings, etc. The hotshoe was missing and the film door did appear to
> > open larger than normal (at least more than my OM-4Ti, I haven't
> > taken out my OM-1 to compare.
> >
> > Anyhow, when I looked through the viewfinder, there was gunk there :-(.
> > I think it's fungus of some sort - as it actually has some sort of
> > cell structure. It was also "curved" which leads me to think that it's
> > not formed on the pentaprism, mirror, focussing screen, etc. It must
> > be in the lens construction of the viewfinder itself. Making a guess
> > that we have Olympus Service here in Tokyo, the previous owner must
> > have tried cleaning it before - thus whatever is there, is probably
> > there to stay.
> >
> > I know many you remember my regrets not buying the previous M-1 I
> > saw in Perth (US$680) that later went onto eBay for US$950-$1000??
> > However this one definitely looks as though it can't be cleaned and
> > it hasn't got a Zuiko M-System 50mm F1.8 with it.
>
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