PASSED Sticker: Epilogue

A few posts back, I was debating over what to do with a gold PASSED sticker that was featured prominently on the front of the pentaprism of a lovely black Nikkormat FT2 I had just purchased and had serviced. If the sticker was anywhere else on the camera, I would have left it in place since it had already traveled with the camera for nearly 50 years. I asked my readers here and on several Facebook groups I belong to what they would do. Interestingly enough, it was about a 60/40 split with the larger percentage of people in favor of removal. But not by much.

I decided to remove the sticker. Amazingly enough, when I scuffed one corner of the sticker with my fingernail, the entire thing popped off, poof! It was surprising to me, very surprising in fact that the sticker left its nearly five decade resting place so easily. Perhaps because it knew this camera had finally found its forever home? Yeah, I’m a bit of an old camera romantic.

Some isopropyl alcohol on a microfiber cloth made fast work of the residual glue. The sticker left a faint oval on the finish of the pentaprism, which I expected. It may fade in time. It may not. I have some Rollei RPX in the camera now, a film a friend of this blog recommended I try.