Sat May 25, 2019 4:54 am
If you are dealing with a free market of little cheap sellers, things can happen, but I like your explanation Daniel.
Maybe people could examine how deep the marks go. If your packaging they might mainly be surface build up. But see the following warning:
Warning: Guys, don't attempt to clean these off unless you know what you are doing, otherwise you could mar, or rub into or destabilise the surface for real.
We should ask BM to come here and give a guide to cleaning each different finish on the camera (different materials can be safely cleanned in different ways). Also a guide to refurbishing actual scatches etc. There are maybe yens of thousands of different chemical formula's for plastic, and many for rubber like materials, and others for powered coatings, with many different ways to treat it while avoiding harming whatever particular surface you are working on. The 'engineering chain' respobsible gir the materials might know, and this would allows users to spruce the camera up every few years, and deal with more nasty stuff (at least service centers could). I've got some coating system here I got from a $5 store, that I want to try in a bench top for refurbishment and hardening protection. I'd be interested if I could apply that as a one off wigjot it fouling the camera surface, melting parts of the surface, or flaking off within ten years from stretching twisting on hard surfaces let alone rubber like grips.
I still think a silicone/carbon water proof fiber glove skin would be a great thing to have. As some of your who follow me know, I have a number of nice design ideas for slim lined cages, battery accessories and cases, all with mount points for light equipment. These are the things that excite me. I can say a pocket mini like case styling with mount points would be LEGENDARY, and in the rich camera, put Arri to shame on set for smaller size use. I'm deep into other stuff at the moment, but I'm well interested I'm sharing to see commercial products developed on a profit share basis. I've got important things lined up, and might be approaching a local group to do a simple mobile app enterprise, so this thousands of sales territory is not a priority to do myself, and was thinking of approaching accessories companies of the sort of redrock micro one day. There are many products like this in camera accessories to do.
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