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Sounds as if you need to tape up the cassette deck door once loaded, and keep using the rain cover rubber-banded shut underneath to try and keep out the dust. I suggest shooting in DV to avoid damaging dropouts.
Shame about your front element, and all for the sake of a protective UV... OK, only remedy is to stay away from wide-angle, because it's down there that the huge dof will bring the damage into sharp relief. There's no magic marker solution I'm afraid, you've just got to stay away from short focal lengths.
Shoot at maximum aperture whenever possible and longer tele - use the inbuilt NDs and raise the shutter speed if necessary. Does the V1 have an aperture priority mode that you can call on for this?
tom.
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