David, please be careful, some erasers have very fine ground glass mixed into the "rubber", sudden death for everything mechanical or optical. Cheers Douglas David Young wrote: > At 10/06/2007, you wrote: > >> Dear David. >> >> As an "old horse" in embedded computers, I can offer a "PRO" alternative: >> >> http://www.otto-office.fr/index.cgi?accueil=+&Referrer=60297931&Page=/catalogue/AfficheOffre.cgi?refarticle=97931&xtor=AL-602&shopbot=1 >> >> This point to the plastic Mars Staedtler Eraser. >> >> You can clean the gold contact of your camera. But one *little* swing is >> enough. You should see the difference after the application. >> >> This eraser does not remove the gold but the dirt on it. >> >> You can train on a SD card for instance if you are not sure about this tip. >> >> G'day! >> > > > Thanks, Xavier! > > I'd heard of the eraser trick, but not tried it. > > We're off, in < an hour, to the coast, for a few days, to the land > of Great Blue Herons and Bald Eagles. I have a pencil type eraser, > and will take it with me, just in case. :-) > > Talk to you all, next Saturday! > > Cheers! > --- > > David Young, > Logan Lake, CANADA > > Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ > Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt > Stock Photography at: http://tinyurl.com/2amll4 > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/