bvandrasik
Member
What is the purpose of the screw in the front cover here? There is nothing behind it.
literiter
Well-known
Tripod mount.
FallisPhoto
Veteran
You unscrew it, screw it into the tripod mount on the side, so it doesn't get lost, and you have a tripod mount on the door, like this:
Al Kaplan
Veteran
It just keeps the hole clean?
FallisPhoto
Veteran
As far as I know, that's pretty much it. It just keeps that hole filled. If the hole goes all the way through, it can keep debris out of the camera body, I suppose, but it rarely goes all the way through. On a lot of the vintage cameras on ebay and elsewhere, that screw is missing.