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Cleaning lens or viewfinder ? Konica please help ! 😊

Started May 27, 2019 | Questions thread
marc petzold
marc petzold Senior Member • Posts: 1,974
Re: Cleaning lens or viewfinder ? Konica please help ! 😊

sybersitizen wrote:

Brandymarie wrote:

So I have a konica autoreflex tc and it looks like it has a dirty viewfinder or inside of the main camera lens.

Remove the lens. Hold the camera up to some light and look through the viewfinder. If the dirt is still visible - and it probably will be - it's in the camera, not the lens.

... is there a way i can open it up and do it myself ?

Don't try to clean dirt seen through the camera itself. It doesn't affect photos in any way, and you're likely to mess something up by poking around in there.

Just get a RocketBlower, or some China Fake. It 100% works - using it since ca. 2006, or so...my FC-1 have had a way dirty OVF, now it's all clean again.

Message from our Sponsor: never pin the Rocket Blower End too much inside the Mirrorbox, means Lens Mount Area - just shortly before, don't -never- touch the Mirror with it. These things are very delicate, and exactly optically being factory-adjusted.

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