Just back from a visit to the repair shop. Jammed OM-1 now unjammed - a two
minute job, with a demo of the fix for the next time. Cool.
And then we got to chatting.
I was honoured with the chance to look at a Zuiko 180/2 - the first "big
white" I have encountered, and a very fine piece of kit it is (though I had
underestimated its value by 50%, and the repair guy didn't know better
himself).
But remember, we are talking about a repair shop here. At first sight it
was a faultless lens - but looking very carefully from the rear, oh my was
there a tale of woe to be seen.
No, it's not fungus... It's not clouding... It's not haze... It's CLEANING
MARKS. And we are talking cleaning marks from the likes of glass-paper.
And we are talking cleaning marks on the *interior* of the front element.
The story involves repairs carried out 'in the field' at a repair shop in
Kenya.
The moral?
While not all repair guys know the value of the lenses they have pass
through their hands, some don't care. Choose wisely!
Piers
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