Look at the splotchy areas on the left and upper right. Very typical of fungus growth. Element separations are usually more uniform in my experience. It certainly won't hurt to send it to Colorado. But if it were mine, and I had a reputable repair place on hand, I'd have them take a look at it first. Paul On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote:
> On 31/08/06, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's fungus. You can probably take it to a local camera repair >> facility. Norm Frosier's New York Camera would have been perfect, but >> they're gone. But you must have some good repair facilities in NY. >> It's just a simple disassembly and cleaning. But you need to look at >> how you're storing your equipment. This must have been in a humid >> room. > > It looks more like a bad inter-element cement job to me, I'd sens it > back to Pentax for assessment if I were you Amita. > > -- > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
