>At 09:31 PM 3/1/01 -0800, Scott Gomez wrote:
>>Bummer! I've often wondered (and I'm sure someone here knows) if there is a
>>way to resurrect a lens that's got fungus.
>
>Depends on how involved the fungus is. Slight infestations are surface
>only -- more serious ones start to produce an acid which etches the coating
>and, in severe cases, the glass itself. Nasty. I've had minor experience
>cleaning slight fungal "blooms," but never anything serious. I suspect
>once the glass is damaged, the lens element is a write-off.
>
>Garth
Also a problem if the fungus has got into the cement between lens groups,
which then have to be separated and reglued. They're never quite the same
afterwards.
Andrew
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