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Camera viewfinder scratched my prescription glasses lens

Started Jun 14, 2018 | Discussions thread
OP Tony Max Forum Member • Posts: 62
Re: The fluffy half of self-stick Velcro

Thanks, guys.

I decided to try the self-adhesive felt pads that are used to stick onto the bottoms of chair legs to prevent the chair legs from scratching floors.  I cut a few of those self-adhesive chair pads into four, small, thin strips and glued them to the rim of the viewfinders of three Panasonic cameras.

I works well so far.  The only problem so far has been that I forgot to allow for the tilting of the tilt screen on the ZS70; when I titled the screen, one of the self-adhesive prevented the tilt screen from opening all the way, so I had to cut a smaller piece of felt pad for that part of the viewfinder rim.

I decided against using Sugru because I thought it might be too hard, and that it, too, therefore might therefore scratch my spectacles lens.  Also, I feared that Sugru might be difficult to get Sugru to be flat.  Also, I saw videos on Youtube of Sugru being removed with an art knife, and I didn't want to scratch my cameras or (worse: the viewfinder) with an art knife if I wanted to remove the Sugru.)

Tony

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