Passed - What the Hell?

kshapero

kshapero

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Why oh why did Nikon put these stickers right in your Face? BTW hard as hell to get off.

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Never understood why so many people just left these on for 50 years. Approx 20 seconds after I unwrap a new old camera, I'm rubbing off the residue from one of those damned stickers with vinegar.
 
Nope! Not all are "Passed". I received a Pentax Spotmatic brought by a Dear Friend from HK. It said "Tested". Yup! A and it was jammed. Off to Pentax agent, explained a gift. The agent checked camera body and found a "collimator" adj. screw in body. The sent bill to JCII( that's what they said).
No charge to me! Used that SP professionally until donated to my daughter.
 
They make me wonder about folks who post their camera photos in Flickr camera groups with the stickers still on. Drives me crazier. Maybe someone can explain why they leave theirs on???
 
I never took them off. Afraid I would break something :p.
 
neal3k said:
They make me wonder about folks who post their camera photos in Flickr camera groups with the stickers still on. Drives me crazier. Maybe someone can explain why they leave theirs on???
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I’ve found that if they’re still on nowadays (after 30-40 years), it’s pretty much impossible to remove them without leaving an ‘unfaded’ patch (don’t know how else to describe it...)

That’s one reason to leave them there.
 
gavinlg said:
Never understood why so many people just left these on for 50 years. Approx 20 seconds after I unwrap a new old camera, I'm rubbing off the residue from one of those damned stickers with vinegar.
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I always get a laugh when I see the protective clear plastic left on someone's electronics.

BTW nose grease is excellent at removing adhesive residue without harming the finish.

Chris
 
Definitely a weird marketing gimmick from back in the day, I imagine someone somewhere in Japan had the idea that cameras would be trusted more if they had the sticker, or maybe it was to suggest a higher level of care in production than rivals? Whatever the reason, finding them never taken off half-century old cameras is bizzare.
 
It took a little bit of work to get a camera certified by JCII.
A dab of WD-40 works wonders to remove that residue.
Phil Forrest
 
Oddly enough, I find that those stickers still serve a purpose, if not the intended one (whatever that was!). In my experience, seeing a still-fresh JCII sticker on a used camera is often an indication that the camera was owned by an amateur who used it little and didn't hammer it like a pro would have.
 
If you wait long enough, leaving stickers on things comes back into style ;)

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My choices:

Cameras bought new: remove sticker, place in box with the other stuff
Cameras bought used: leave the sticker - unless it’s really in an obnoxious place
 
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