Don Brown Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Hi Can anybody help, looking through my K-3 viewfinder I have a black shadow at the bottom of frame on checking it seems to be the mirror shutter is this normal with the K-3 Regards Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k3shooter Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Hi Can anybody help, looking through my K-3 viewfinder I have a black shadow at the bottom of frame on checking it seems to be the mirror shutter is this normal with the K-3 Regards Don <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi Don, Did you clean the ground glass? It's a small piece of plastic, just behind and above the shutter. Remove the lens, it's easy to get to. Take a q-tip or lens cloth and clean with lens cleaner or rubbing alcohol. If you use a q-tip it may take a while to get all the little fibers off, but with a little patience it will come clean. Hope this does the trick. You can also clean the mirror shutter while you're in there, just be delicate with both mirrors and don't apply too much pressure while cleaning. Some shutters were not polished very well from the factory, not much you can do about that. I just performed all the above maintenance to my own K3 and all is clean and bright in the viewfinder. Good Luck. Let me know how it goes. Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Brown Posted June 14, 2005 Author Share Posted June 14, 2005 Hi Don, Did you clean the ground glass? It's a small piece of plastic, just behind and above the shutter. Remove the lens, it's easy to get to. Take a q-tip or lens cloth and clean with lens cleaner or rubbing alcohol. If you use a q-tip it may take a while to get all the little fibers off, but with a little patience it will come clean. Hope this does the trick. You can also clean the mirror shutter while you're in there, just be delicate with both mirrors and don't apply too much pressure while cleaning. Some shutters were not polished very well from the factory, not much you can do about that. I just performed all the above maintenance to my own K3 and all is clean and bright in the viewfinder. Good Luck. Let me know how it goes. Greg <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi Greg I will give it a go and let you know how it went, Regards Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Brown Posted June 15, 2005 Author Share Posted June 15, 2005 Hi GregI will give it a go and let you know how it went, Regards Don <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi Greg Have found problem have stripped down front of camera asper www.k3camera.com and can see that the ground glass assy has a problem where the two 45 deg blocks must have seperated if you squeeze the two together it goes so a new ground glass assy needed if I can get one. Regards Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k3shooter Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Don, Sorry to hear that this is more involved than just a cleaning. If K3camera can't help, try giving Kiev Camera a call in Atlanta. They're on the web at kievcamera.com. Good luck. Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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