Hi all, Several months ago I lost the little thumb-ring which fits onto the Pentax 6x7 shutter speed dial when using the metered prism. This ring comes with the prism and is totally separate so it is very easy to lose (aaghh, my preciousss!).
I was quite annoyed when I lost this ring. I'd been careful with it but I never saw it again after throwing it into the camera bag while changing finders. It must have bounced out or something. It was my first real outing using that prism after I'd lugged it all the way back from London. Today I found it again. Right where I thought I'd dropped it, near the top of the hill. I had returned to the location because I thought it'd be a nice place to spend such a sunny afternoon and run some film through the 6x7 (with the back taped up to try and trace a light leak, but thats a different story). And to see if, against all odds, I could find the ring again. I would have gone back earlier but its quite a drive and quite an uphill walk to get there, relatively speaking, so I ended up just giving up and hoping to return sometime in the more distant future. So after about 4 months of being rained on, baked in the sun, and who knows what those sheep did to it, it is now back in my posession. And it still looks pretty decent after a good wash in hot soapy water. To prevent losing it again I wanted to glue it to the shutter dial but I'm not so sure about that now... Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
