I've seen 10/G foam which has completely fallen out of the hinge area.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <clintonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Olympus OM-10
> > ...a camera body that leaks light
> > almost certainly has something considerably worse wrong with it than
just
> > deteriorated seals. This is unlikely to be a cheap repair.
>
> Actually, just the opposite is true -- to someone who knows the camera.
True,
> many early OM-10's had light leak problems, but I've only seen one in ten
years
> or more that hadn't had these problems corrected. In all likelihood, the
> problem is that the foam along the hinge inside the back cover has
slipped --
> this is fairly common on OM-10's and OM-G's -- an "easy fix".
>
>
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