OK, including my question (below), I just counted 3 independent posts within a few hours on the fungus issue. Does that prove that I am right about fungal contagion?
Stan > From: Stan Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:12:13 -0600 > To: PDML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Fungus sanity check please . . . > > I recently bought a used lens on eBay. It arrived with slightly smeared > glass. I cleaned the lens, front and back, and looked through and saw little > squiggly lines 1mm or so in length a few places around the edge of the front > element. Cleaned the front some more to be sure, and confirmed that the > little squiggly fuzzy lines are on the back side of the front element. > Fungus I said. Actually what I said first was something else that rhymes > with hoover. As Wendy would say. > > So I email the seller and tell him I don't want fungus. Fine, he says, send > it back. I could clean it, I says, but I could not be sure of sanitizing it, > and I don't want the fungus to spread to my other lenses. How about a > professional cleaning? > > The seller is willing to have me get an estimate for a professional CLA of > the lens. But he is also ridiculing the notion that a lens which is all > fungused up is in any way a danger to other lenses. Like, "how would the > fungus get out to 'infect' the other lenses!?!?" > > Tell me I am not crazy! Tell me I am not repeating a myth, that fungus is > "contagious" and destructive. Even better, give me the URL of an > authoritative source on this topic. > > Thanks. > > Stan > - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
