I've never held this lens before, but rear elements are generally the easiest to remove; I've removed quite a few in order to get to oily aperture blades.
I'd REALLY like to see a photo of the dead moth! :-) Cheers, —M. \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 7 November 2012 09:54, Krisjanis Linkevics <krisjanis.linkev...@exigenservices.com> wrote: > Some of you might remember my FA135 that a moth took hostage. Long story > short there is a dead moth right behind the back element. If nothing else, it > is messing with focusing, so I would very much like to get rid of its carcas > and debris. > > So half a year ago I went to my local Pentax dealer and the lens was sent off > to be "fixed". After long travels to the Czech Republic and Germany it > finally came back today. Nobody has even tried to take it apart. They say > they can't fix it. > > So my question is - do I try to take it apart or give it to some local > repairman to attempt a repair? I haven't seen any schematics floating around > and have no idea what it would take to remove the back element but I have > about as much trust in a nondescript repair shop in a basement somewhere as I > do in my own fingers. > > kris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.