ioanis_georgiadis

<p>Thank you Matthew, thank you Tim. Maybe I'll be brave enough to try to fix at least one of the prisms myself...<br> Matthew, as concerns the leatherette, I found a seller in eBay that sells leatherette, flexible glues and whatnot and I'll buy the proper glue from him, so this wouldn't be a problem. I can give you the link, but I am not sure if this is permitted in the forum. Anyway you can find it -if interested- by searching "Camera Body Recovering Leatherette Generation 2 New Material promo price!". <br> Now, about the fungus. I will try to photograph -what I think is fungus- and post the photo here for evaluation (if one still cares) tomorrow. Please note that the view of the prism is not clouded at all and the fungus is only minor; three or four mm long feather like lines at he two corners of the prism from the viewfinder's side. If I could remove the bottom glass only, I think that I would be able to clean it.<br> I also know for sure that only F prisms would fit/match F finders, so no luck there.<br> Regards,<br> Ioanis (John)</p>

<p>Thank you JDM von Weinberg. Having seen page 28, I wouldn't even think of trying to «repair» them my self… I have been looking for quite sometime now for a decent plain prism and those two mentioned above seemed quite promising. The first one (the one with the rattling noise), I bought with a camera at a very nice price, so I think it's OK. The other one (the one I suspect it has fungus) I bought it boxed and I paid over 300 US$ (the seller said it is in pristine condition, and it really looks so). I would have returned the item to the seller, but I also paid 61 EURO for import taxes… I guess I am stuck (perhaps I would get a partial refund)… I'll keep looking for a nice one though. Thank you once again.</p>

<p>2012 April Fools… Go figure...<br> http://petapixel.com/2012/04/02/april-fools-2012-in-the-photo-world/</p>

I have recently acquired two Nikon F plain prisms. The first one makes a rattling noise when off camera with no other apparent problem and the second one has some feather-like spots that look like fungus to me which could possibly be cleaned. Has any body opened such a prism before? Would it be easy to do this my self? Any instruction manuals available? Thank you for your time.