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Re: Waiter! There's a caterpillar in my ....camera!

  • From: P3D <klein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Waiter! There's a caterpillar in my ....camera!
  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 22:23:58 +0200
On 11 Aug 97 at 20:48, P3D Robert Cruickshank wrote:

> An amusing incident: I picked up a Viewmaster Mark II for 75 Canadian
> bucks the other day,(i.e. almost free...) (sadly, no cutter...) and was
> cleaning it up when I noticed a bit of fluff visible in one shutter. Off
> comes the front of the camera, and with a pair of tweezers I pulled out a
> larva of something or other, long dead, wrapped in a silky coccoon. It
> was in between the shutter blades. Perhaps this was a danger of making
> those VM insect reels. Don't know if the shutter works yet, haven't run
> film through it. Perhaps there are more shutter bugs inside... 

The shutter-blades could act like a little guillotine. Decapitated by a 
Stereo Camera. Another unusual way to die! (After beaten to death with one 
of George's temporarily defunct Realists ...)

Alexander Klein
3D-Magazin, Editor (http://www.stereoscopy.com/3d-magazin)
Webmaster: http://www.stereoscopy.com


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