How do dents happen?

[Livesteamer]

According to my friends that fly radio control airplanes there are localized areas of heavy gravity that pull your airplane right out of the sky. It's supposed to work on cameras too. Joe

 

[rxmd]

That has to be the common dent you see on M3's ... that damned Leicameter has a lot to answer to! 😛

It was a conspiracy to sell more replacement top plates.

 

[sreed2006]

I bought an old vacuum tube organ from a thrift store, years ago. It was in good shape except it had a whole lot of little tiny holes in the front of it, in the wood. After looking at it and pondering what in the world caused those holes, I concluded it had been hit by a shotgun blast of bird shot. Now, explain to me how that could happen, and I'll explain the dent in your camera. 🙂

 

[tjh]

SLRs are known to be particularly susceptible to damage in the prism cover department. For example one often sees vintage Nikon Fs with non metering prisms where that unit has been dented at the apex of the prism or elsewhere.

I have a Nikon FM2 that was my main camera for many years. Before a trip some years ago, I was sitting on the floor (terrazzo cement) in front of the cabinet I use to store cameras. I had the camera on the floor and just hit it so that it tipped over - not a drop, just a movement of a few cm. - and the result was a dent in the top of the prism. I was amazed. Still, the camera works as it always has. I now have a little carpet in front of the cabinet.

 

[rxmd]

I'm trying to picture how this dent may have been formed.

Maybe it was previously owned by a dentist?

 

[35mmdelux]

When a moving object (i.e., camera) hits an object that does not give way.

 

[Rico]

All Contax T cameras are dented to factory specification.

 

[acheyj]

According to my friends that fly radio control airplanes there are localized areas of heavy gravity that pull your airplane right out of the sky. It's supposed to work on cameras too. Joe

There is no such thing as gravity !

THE EARTH SUCKS>

ron

 

[gekopaca]

Re the clunking someone on the head with an M2 - that's not the way it should be done. If you're going to clunk someone, use an F-3 with an MD4 and a variable rate firing converter. You will never dent the camera and the guy you clunk will probably have no memory of the event.

The guy begged me to use the Leica ...
But I think I'm too easily influenced, if I had known your advice, I resisted and used a cheap camera 😎

 

[peterm1]

There is no such thing as gravity !

THE EARTH SUCKS>

ron

Thats right - Gravity is only a theory. Just like the theory of evolution. Ask the creationists - they know! 😀

 

[Ezzie]

I bought an old vacuum tube organ from a thrift store, years ago. It was in good shape except it had a whole lot of little tiny holes in the front of it, in the wood. After looking at it and pondering what in the world caused those holes, I concluded it had been hit by a shotgun blast of bird shot. Now, explain to me how that could happen, and I'll explain the dent in your camera. 🙂

Simple: They missed the player!

 

[tlitody]

I bought an old vacuum tube organ from a thrift store, years ago. It was in good shape except it had a whole lot of little tiny holes in the front of it, in the wood. After looking at it and pondering what in the world caused those holes, I concluded it had been hit by a shotgun blast of bird shot. Now, explain to me how that could happen, and I'll explain the dent in your camera. 🙂

Wood worm.

 

[peterm1]

Simple: They missed the player!

Maybe there is a new album here for Elton John - "Dont shoot me, I'm only the vacuum tube organ player."

What the hell is a vacuum tube organ anyway.

 

[Ezzie]

Maybe there is a new album here for Elton John - "Dont shoot me, I'm only the vacuum tube organ player."

What the hell is a vacuum tube organ anyway.

Or a new Tom Waits album: "The vacumm tube organ has been drinking" Which might not help much if the clientele bring along shotguns to the party.

 

[Ezzie]

How do cameras acquire dents? Its not the fall, its the (crash)landing.

 

[jsrockit]

[/b]Frustration and a good throwing arm.

Hahaha, yes!