Left my camera in the car :(

[nataku]

Hi guys,

I'm a noobie at cameras, and I just bought a used Nikon F60 SLR from my friend for a class.

In any case, camera was fine until I accidentally left it in my car for the entire day (it was in a little lunch cooler bag). It's summer, so needless to say, it was very hot in the car.

After I took it out, I noticed that I couldn't focus the lens anymore. Or rather, everything is blurry. The auto focus seems to try to work, but what I see through the lens is a blurry image. I haven't actually printed any pictures to know if they come out blurry, but i assume they would, cause it seems like the lens are fogged or something like that....

Anyone know what I can do to fix this? Is it condensation inside? Should I go buy some solution to clean the lens? Put it in the fridge? lol I have no idea what to do...

Thanks~

[poker]

Attach another lens before you assume the camera is broken. Good luck.

[Skyman]

does an f60 have a dioptre adjustment wheel (located near where you look through) it is possible that this has been bumped.

[nataku]

skyman

thank you you are genius lol

i have no idea what that dioptre was or that it even existed until u said so, and sure enouh thats what happened....

wow im very happy that the camera lens is fine.

thank you, you two guys great!

[Skyman]

I used to see this all the time when I worked in a camera shop. A dioptre is used to adjust the image in the viewfinder so that people who need glasses can use the camera without them. you used to be able to buy them as inserts that slid down where the rubber eyecup goes with different grades + or - .05 to about +/-2 but if your eyesight fell out of this correction range you were out of luck unless you could afford to get you optometrist to make one for you (and they would) These days they have sort of faded into the past, but many cameras have a wheel that gives more accurate adjustments but probably less correction for those who have thicker glassses. Incidentally even the best glass is still in a liquid form (albeit a very very very viscous liquid) so over time the lens will go "off" as the glass flows out of shape. This gets worse in heat so heat is to be avoided as much as possible.

[byjamesderuvoDHQ]

It may also have ended up with condensation inside the body and the lens. Try using some uncooked rice to draw out the excess moisture.