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01/10/2006 02:44:20 AM · #1 |
Ive read alot about the canons having problems and it seams everything goes back to the lense and mechanical problems with it. It seems they jam up or they get dirty and cause the mechanisim to bind locking the units up.
Why not use a lense filter adaptor to protect the lense? as far as i can tell the adaptor fits around the whole lense and kinda seals it in this little round metal shield. The lense can still move in and out inside the adaptor but it would protect it from dust and damage. If somthing happens you could always replace the adaptor then to risk tearing up the mechanism.
Seams like $25. insurance plus some filters to play with. Only downside is they bulk up the camera. |
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01/10/2006 03:27:31 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by BowerR64:
Ive read alot about the canons having problems |
What Canons are you talking about?
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01/11/2006 01:57:19 PM · #3 |
| The A series with the motor driven zoom and focus. |
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01/11/2006 03:10:32 PM · #4 |
Yah; on a lot of these cameras if you want to use a filter you have to buy this little tube thingy that the lens zooms in and out within. Then you screw the filter on that. The lenses are too tiny and come in too many different diameters for filter manufacturers to build filters for them, and they don't anyway have a protruding flange machined to accept a filter.
I know exactly what he's talking about; on both my Finepix 4900z and my Coolpix 5700 I had one of these, and I just left it on all the time, with a UV filter; total mechanism sealing, very handy.
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01/11/2006 03:11:29 PM · #5 |
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01/11/2006 04:12:18 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by theSaj:
Are we talking P&S ? |
Yes, and prosumer dSLR-looking little cams like the ones I mentioned.
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