jimmy_peterson1

<p>Jermaine,<br /> Unless you are currently lacking gainful employment and are completely supported by your wife, and at the risk of rash presumption in the eyes of the ninnies and spineless cotqueans inhabiting this forum, I would suggest you buy whatever you like and not bother with spousal approval. <br /> FWIW, it has been my experience that women generally respect and admire men more when they are able to grow a pair of balls big enough to assert their own will without seeking mommy's approval. Of course, they will not tell you this.<br /> So be free! Buy your camera and if she says "what's this?", say, "woman, I work for a living and take care of my responsibilities so I'll do what I please." Then continue on in whatever you were doing as if unfazed.</p>

<p>Perhaps your employer's software had this in mind:<br>

<a href="../photo/5638708">http://www.photo.net/photo/5638708</a></p>

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<p>Joseph, I'm being completely honest in saying that for a matter of $3,300, I'd just go ahead and hop on a plane for the U.S. and pay him as well as his local police department a visit. Perhaps an official inquiry from the police (even over the phone) might be enough to scare him into returning the stolen funds. I would also contact a lawyer working in the immediate area in which he resides and see if you could coordinate a lawsuit of some sort. Who knows?<br />I would not just eat the $3,300. <br />Please believe me when I tell you that trying to dispute a transaction such as this from where you are is simply futile. No law enforcement agency will take you seriously. <br />Filing a bunch of complaints from behind your computer is an exercise that will end in nothing but frustration.<br />If you do nothing, he will just walk away from the whole affair unscathed, smugly gloating over the theft. <br />Bottom line, even if you don't end up recovering your money, a nice 3 day trip to the U.S. culminating in a bat swing into the perpetrator's face might bring you all the relief you are liable to procure in such a situation. <br>

My 2 cents.<br>

<br />And yes, I am advocating violence because it unfortunately happens to be the only means of communication that people who casually steal from others are able to comprehend.</p>

<p>Here's one I found on eBay:<br>

<br /><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130376938820&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130376938820&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT</a></p>

<p>HS, I don't see a tint when looking directly through the lens mount or when shining a flashlight straight into the mirror. When, however, I hold the camera downwards slightly so that only about half the mirror is visible and shine a flashlight over it from above I am able to see a distinct spotty looking haze covering the surface of the mirror. <br>

I guess I just have no luck buying used equipment. :-(</p>

<p>Does this mean that, basically, the mirror is actually in the original factory condition and <em>should</em> have a sort of foggy greenish tint to it? Is that the gist of what you are trying to convey? Sorry, just confused by your response. I know little about mirrors, first surface or otherwise.</p>

<p>Hey guys, I'm new here on photo.net making my first foray into 35mm film after using digital almost exclusively since taking up photography. I just purchased a used EOS 1n film body on eBay for a great price and it seems to work perfectly, but I noticed something strange with the reflex mirror: It appears to have a slight greenish tint to it, almost like a very fine, uniform green haze covering the entire extent of the mirror. I am sort of disinclined to attempt to "clean" it with lens paper, as I fear damaging the mechanism. It doesn't look like a typical "dirty mirror, it doesn't even appear dusty, just this very light, uniform green haze, almost like a greenish patina but not thick at all, and not appearing as if it occured as aresult of someone wiping it with something, since there are no smears. I'm assuming it shouldn't look that way, but I'm not even sure to tell you the truth?!<br>

It this something I need to deal with before attempting to use this body with my existing collection of canon lenses? Will this somehow screw up my metering or focusing in a way that's somehow difficult to detect? Or should I just ignore it and use the camera?<br>

Any answers from experience users of this body would be really appreciated. The camera tech places around here won't even talk to you unless you practically agree in advance to hand over your camera to them for a CLA.</p>