On Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 0:06, Jim Brokaw <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] First attempt at lens repa" saying:
...
> The catch is that if the element is not available anywhere anymore, you have
> a wounded lens and no way to fix it... I have an 8mm fisheye and a 16mm
> fisheye with that problem. Both need rear elements due to fungus damage, the
> 8mm needs the last two glass pieces, the 16mm needs only the last one.
> Olympus says the 8mm parts are NLA ...
...
Perhaps the fungus damage is superficial?
See http://www.chem.helsinki.fi/~toomas/photo/fungus/
& http://brashear.phys.appstate.edu/lhawkins/photo/camrep.faq.html#ques_C5
or send it to
http://www.focalpointlens.com/fp_services.html#haze_fungus
I'd keep it in the freezer until then.
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