Originally Posted by
Michael Graves
Corran, you're much better off. I picked up five of the Crowns last week just to do a review. They came in today. They appear to be 3D printed. Of the five, 9 of 10 dark slides were so hard to slide in and out that you could feel the plastic pull tab starting to give way. They didn't get any smoother with repeated insertion/withdrawal actions (Keep your mind out of the gutter!!) Inside my Chamonix, I couldn't pull most of them out at all without dislodging the camera position or pulling the holder out with it. The dark slides have this grating sound like sandpaper over rough-sawn wood. The tape holding the hinges together...on all five of them...was wrinkled and very sloppy. And the hinges don't properly seat once you get the dark slide removed. I'm not bothering to try them for light-tightness (is that a word?). They're just going back. They're absolutely horrible.
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