> 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.
Had a 85mm f2 'M' with light fungus, looked like spiders web. Cleaned by camerarepairer (eBay ID) for £25, excellent service never had any problems since, he also did an excellent job on a Refconverter A that was badly infected. I'm looking at sending a 75mm 2.8 645 lens to him that I picked up very reasonably priced, again light frungus. Apparently it depends on the amount and type of fungi! john ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:22:01 +0100 Subject: RE: Hyperthetical question regarding fungus. > mike wilson wrote: > > > 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. > > Thanks for all the input on this question folks. > > Malcolm ------- End of Original Message -------
