3/4/2023 0 Comments Camera guard![]() In the backpack, lenses can get some bumps and scratches but so far no visible damage on them. ![]() I will come back in 3, 6 and 12 months later to update the state of the vinyl, probably with pictures too (I will reserve the 2nd post of the review for future updates). The build quality of the vinyl seems very good so far but I have it for only one month now (on the lenses). listening to heavy metal helped me stay focused and not get my OCD to overly triggered. if you have OCD it might help (or might make it worse). *You MUST have a lot of patience and time to do it properly, do not rush. I told them about this issue and they were very open and willing to solve the issue and ask for further details on how the can fix it. After talking to the company about this issue they send me a replacement rings for the Zoom, Focus, and the one between the two at no cost (when I ordered the E-M1 Mark III vinyl). I eventually took off the in-between rings vinyl so that the clutch would work. I did the same for the 7-14mm f 2.8 Pro as 12-40mm f 2.8 Pro (actually my 7-14mm Pro was the first skin I put on) but I noticed on the 12-40mm Pro that the Manual Focus Clutch could not engage because there was less room for the ring to fall inside the zoom ring compared to 7-14mm Pro so I couldn't use it. When I reached the top edge it was longer so I bend it inwards (towards the body of the lens) like this: So what happened to me is that the Manual Focus Clutch for the Olympus 12-40mm f 2.8 has some play in it (it doesn't seem as robust and tight as the 7-14mm f 2.8 Pro) so I put the zoom ring vinyl starting from the bottom edge of the lens (the edge towards the lens mount) aligning it from the metal groove edge. *For lenses some parts are oversized (like the Focus and Zoom ring vinyl) but they don't tell you where to start putting it on (from the top or from the bottom). Of course the thinner the material the more sensible it is. *The vinyl starts stretching AS SOON as you peel it off the paper, so you have to be very gentle and slow when handling it, there is some room to pull it without having issues BUT you need to be absolutely minimal on the amount of handling it before it does not fit the shape as it should. But there are things you need to know before you do it (of which I did not know until I did my 2 lenses first): The process has been made quite efficient and effective to minimize the number of twists and bends you need to make but, of course, that's model-dependent. The ease of installation is relatively easy and straightforward. I talked to the company and they promised they are working on making a video tutorial for EACH product. For cameras body it's fine but for lenses sometimes problems can come up (more on this later). ![]() ![]() Subscribe to see EXIF info for this image (if available)įunctional but limited. All of these skins I bought with my own money, nothing was sponsored: At the start of this month, they launched the first Olympus camera skin, for the E-M1 Mark III. And it got me curious but they never had skins for the stuff I had, at first their main focus was CaNiSony but recently they have been pushing for Olympus products quite a bit and some Panasonic as well. In the last couple of years, I have noticed some adverts for Life+Guard (that's their brand name), their website is (the reason the link is here is that their brand name and website is not the easiest to search for on the internet, a mix of popular words and different website link name). If there are ways to protect my gear I will get them/put them on/used them. I want to get an image then I do what I need and must (walk through thick foliage, crawl from mud, dirt and wet grass, climb rocks and difficult to access places, I don't shy away from a challenge and I put my stuff through hell and back. I am a very clumsy person by nature, accidents happen and more often than not in my case (plenty of bad luck to go around) and I have enough anxiety from other aspects of my life to worry every second of babying my gear. I will not expand the debate of why I chose to do it beyond the following: I am sure there is plenty of reasons why not to stick something on your camera either because you don't like the idea of doing that or believe it's wasted money or it makes a camera ugly, etc. Ok, let's get this out of the way first: It's going to be a very debatable subject.
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