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Symptoms of Oily Aperture Blades

Oily aperture blades is one of the maladies that can effect old camera lenses. Oil gets onto the blades when the grease in the focus gearing breaks down and leaks. Age and heat are typically what causes the grease to break down i.e. a lens left in a car on a hot sunny day. The [...]

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Solutions for Pentax Kx Video Problems

This might be of help to other Pentax Kx users. The site he mentions for the codec, is located at Morgan Multimedia. www.LeeStranahan.com I had two problems with my Pentax Kx – my editing software would not read the camera’s M-JPEG and exposure shifting. This video explains the solutions

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Cleaning Oily Aperture Blades

An oily aperture is not uncommon in old lenses. Typically this happen when old lubricant breaks down due to heat or age. Symptoms of this condition are generally over exposed images when not shooting at maximum aperture (smallest f number). This happens because the blades move slowly (or not at all) when you take the [...]

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Sony Cyber-Shot Repair

I have never had a problem with a Sony camera, but I though this video was quite funny. This trend in Youtube consumer product destruction is to my liking sony cyber shot camera repair.. After the poor customer service at sony I have repaired my camera. Access error is fixed..THANKS SONY FOR THE LAST CAMERA [...]

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