Hi, >> For me, there would be a number of factors: >> 1. How rare is it? >> 2. How bad is the fungus? >> 3. How much does it cost? >> 4. How much will the repair cost? >> 5. Will the repair be successful? >> 6. How badly do I want it? >> >> With fungus, given its penchant for cross fertilisation, so >> to speak, the lens would have to be exceptionally cheap. You >> would, with very few exceptions, have to virtually give it to me.
> All relevant points! Has anyone had a lens sent away for repair in respect > of fungal removal, and if so, was it successful? I am certainly not keen on > infecting other equipment and would isolate such a lens. Yes. I had a Leica lens with fungus which I sent away for inspection by some Geordie lab technician - Mike Wilson, I think his name is <g>. He shook his head, tut-tutted a little, and said something beginning "I'm afraid it's bad news, Sir...". I dropped the lens in the bin and let the garbologists take it away. I didn't want it in the house with thousands of £s worth of other lenses. -- Cheers, Bob
