John H wrote,
<<Ponds cold cream, or almost any variation is excellant for cleaning
lenses. Also, at N*k*n we used........face oil....that's right, with
equivalent results. Rub finger on oily area of face, now rub into
fungus infecte area of glass. Believe it or notttt.
Sometimes the hardest part (sometimes impossible) was to unscrew the
from assembly from the body of the lens.>>
And Gary Reese wrote,
<<Conventional wisdom would say that a lens with fine cleaning marks and
some
coating loss from ALL its elements surfaces (apparently due to an aggressive
fungus removal) would perform poorer than one in excellent condition. I had
a
chance to make a side by side comparison and the results were surprising: no
significant difference between the two. Here is the results of that
comparison, which I'll be putting up on my WWW site. The first in each pair
of SQF values is the user grade lens and the second the excellent condition
lens. 85mm f/2.0 Zuiko (single-coated)>>
I happen to have this exact lens with this exact problem, (fungus and
cleaning marks), except I haven't cleaned mine yet.
How would I remove the Ponds after cleaning the elements?
Should someone do this if they never took a lens apart before?
Charlie L
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