Cursed by the wrong size...

Sure is a good looking camera from the front thogh..

So I went to the Photography Show and bought a camera which is perfect in every way. Except one. The plastic around the viewfinder is broken. Wah. I can’t stress enough how little effect this has on the camera. It works fine and you can’t even see the fault from the front. But it bothered me. So I bought a differently broken camera with an intact viewfinder surround and tried to replace the damaged part.

It didn’t go well.

I managed to get both cameras to pieces, removed the broken part and got the replacement in place. And then it all went wrong.

this is the doner camera. That powder used to be foam

This is the replacement part in perfect condition. But the wrong size

I’d assumed that because the parts on the cameras looked the same, they would be the same. The cameras were different versions of the same model, but nobody would subtly change the design of a part just because they could, would they? Of course the answer is yes. The replacement part is around half a millimetre thicker than the old one. And that’s all it needs to be not to fit. Double wah. So I’ve had to put both cameras back together and continue the quest. Or convince myself that it doesn’t really matter. As if that’s going to happen.

The only piece of good news is that while I had the lid off my original camera I was able to make the flash work properly. The camera has a socket for connecting the flash gun, but when I got it the socked was always short circuited, causing the flash to fire when it shouldn’t. I had a quick look and the tab on the socket was shorting against body of the camera. I bent it slightly into the body of the camera and I now have timely flashes.

I’m going to call this a score draw. Book now for round two…