Mold in viewfinder
Mar 6, 2015 09:39:50 #
Daughter spending semester in Ecuador reports mold or something like that growing inside eyepiece of her Nikon D3100. Any short term help until she gets home?
Mar 6, 2015 09:44:59 #
Mar 6, 2015 09:50:32 #
balticvid
Loc: Queens now NJ
dennis2146 wrote:
If it was me I would send it to a Nikon repair facility ASAP.
Dennis
Dennis
Absolutely. send it to them fast.
Mar 6, 2015 10:01:35 #
Mold likes neither dryness, bright light, nor plenty of air circulation. This inhibits its growth. Give the camera as much as possible of all three! Until the camera can get properly serviced, this is what your daughter needs to do. The sooner the mold's growth is suspended, the better. The camera should not be stored in the camera bag other than short-term during transport.
Mar 6, 2015 13:51:58 #
Thanks. She was considering placing in inside a rice container first inside a paper bag. Think this might help?
Mar 6, 2015 14:36:33 #
rustfarmer wrote:
Thanks. She was considering placing in inside a rice container first inside a paper bag. Think this might help?
I do not think so. If it is already mold the rice will not stop it nor slow down the growth.
Dennis
Mar 6, 2015 14:50:56 #
Mar 6, 2015 16:24:17 #
dennis2146 wrote:
I do not think so. If it is already mold the rice will not stop it nor slow down the growth.
Dennis
Dennis
After you create a environment that is hostile to the mold, its growth slows down. If the enviroment is hostile enough, the growth comes to a halt. For example, if you deep freeze the mold, it will certainly not grow. Mold only grows when conditions are right for it to do so - damp, dark with little air circulation is what it likes best.
Mar 6, 2015 18:50:56 #
Thanks for all the help folks. She is there until May so I may try to find a authorized shop in Ecudore.
Mar 6, 2015 21:46:14 #
RWR
Loc: La Mesa, CA
rustfarmer wrote:
Daughter spending semester in Ecuador reports mold or something like that growing inside eyepiece of her Nikon D3100. Any short term help until she gets home?
Hey, that's an easy one, rust. 15-20 minutes in a bucket of bleach will kill every last spore dead in it's tracks.
P.S. Make sure she removes the battery and memory card - don't want to damage those!
Mar 7, 2015 10:32:54 #
I have heard it is untrue that bleach kills mold or its spores. Guys that do mold remediation in crawl spaces used to use bleach but found it really doesn't kill mold, so new chemicals are being used. Besides that, would you really place your camera in a bucket of bleach? I would not.
Mar 7, 2015 10:32:56 #
I have heard it is untrue that bleach kills mold or its spores. Guys that do mold remediation in crawl spaces used to use bleach but found it really doesn't kill mold, so new chemicals are being used. Besides that, would you really place your camera in a bucket of bleach? I would not.
Mar 7, 2015 10:40:04 #
Have her check the lens. If she is looking through the view finder with the lens on, it may be the lens and not the camera mirror or view finder box. Instead, it may be the lens.
rustfarmer wrote:
Daughter spending semester in Ecuador reports mold or something like that growing inside eyepiece of her Nikon D3100. Any short term help until she gets home?
Mar 7, 2015 17:37:08 #
rjriggins11
Loc: Colorado Springs, CO
Unfortunately, mold or fungus is a live, growing thing. Ya' gotta kill it. I've painstakingly taken apart countless number of lenses and camera gear with this problem and scrubbed down the glass with ammonia and alcohol. It's the only way to get rid of it. She's gonna have to use it like it is until she can get back to civilization and get it to a repair shop. Oh, by the way, I'm a repair shop.
rustfarmer wrote:
Daughter spending semester in Ecuador reports mold or something like that growing inside eyepiece of her Nikon D3100. Any short term help until she gets home?
Mar 7, 2015 20:56:30 #
romanticf16
Loc: Commerce Twp, MI
n3eg wrote:
That's already on my list of why I hate viewfinders.
Why blame the viewfinder- she probably stored it damp and kept it in a confined case that way under humid conditions. Not a camera problem but a user one.
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