Gear maintenance-How to?

[richardHaw]

on my fungus cleaning post:
https://richardhaw.com/2016/03/27/repair-fungus-cleaning/
i mentioned how to retard fungus growth by using this:


if you can find one, i suggest that you stock up...

[armando_m]

My D800 had the internal frame cracked, since it was out of warranty I decided on a DIY solution

Broken frame


Glued together - used an loctite epoxy that says can be machined/threaded , advertises as "liquid steel"


Added an L-bracket and modified it so it gets and additional support point on the side of the camera


It may not look pretty but it has held together and no more blurry shots when used on a tripod

[BW]

Borge.  I am intrigued by the circular Lego piece you have attached to the front command dial of your Df.  What is its purpose?

It is meant to give a better grip to my middle finger to make adjustment in shutterspeed when I use G lenses in manual mode. Aperture on the thumb and shutterspeed for the middle finger.

[pluton]

  Lens coating is very wear sensitive and at each cleaning, how careful you are, there is a small portion of the layer you are taking off on each passage. Clean always in circular passages, starting from center.

I have personally seen Nikon lenses from a very busy L.A. rental house that had the coating on the front surface of the front element worn off  due to the obsessive ten-times-a-day, 200-days-a-year cleaning by photo assistants who were apparently endeavoring to demonstrate what marvelous assistants they are.
In reality, the hard AR coatings on the outer surfaces of modern** lenses are highly resistant to a reasonable amount of wiping and cleaning.
**Modern = post WW2, roughly.
 

[pluton]

My small, feeble contribution:
For the rare times when one feels the need to wipe a deeply recessed rear element, this alligator clip zip tied onto a piece of welding rod ---carrying lens tissue, of course--- comes in handy.  I've used it several times since I made it about 20 years ago.

[Frank Fremerey]

MFloyd: In salt water, wind & sand: Why not try unterwater housing?

[MFloyd]

MFloyd: In salt water, wind & sand: Why not try unterwater housing?

Not obvious to house a 300mm+ in an underwater housing :-))

[Hugh_3170]

Armando, is the cracking that occurred in your D800 something that also occurs with the D810?    Or does anyone else know?

A very nice repair by the way - well done.

[armando_m]

Armando, is the cracking that occurred in your D800 something that also occurs with the D810?    Or does anyone else know?

A very nice repair by the way - well done.

This was discussed in jan 2015, I can not recall who, but someone shared a picture of the same area of the frame of a D810, it appeared to be more sturdy than the 800

[elsa hoffmann]

MFloyd: In salt water, wind & sand: Why not try unterwater housing?

have you seen the price of an underwater house and port?
and seriously not practical unless you scuba

the plastic sleeve thingie might be better in some cases