Amita, That's fungus growth. Unfortunate but it doesn't look too bad yet so the lens should be salvaged.
The best lens person in the US who I would send any lens with that kind of growth on it to is John Van Stelton at Focal Point: http://www.focalpointlens.com/ Anyone who values their lenses should keep that URL handy! They normally do Leica, Rollei, Hasselblad work, but have done others for me and friends of mine. Not cheap, but then neither is an FA77. Storing equipment in camera cases (any kind...) is one of the easiest ways to get fungus growths, in my experience. I store equipment in closed, plastic drawers that are ventilated. Godfrey On Aug 30, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Amita Guha wrote: > I was photographing my silver 77m Ltd for a buyer when I discovered > some odd sort of fogging behind the rear element. A few people on this > list have seen this, but I'd like to hear from others. It's the last > photo: > > http://www.sunny16.net/77.html > > I guess it's obvious that I'll have to send it to Pentax for a > cleaning, but I was wondering if any of you had seen anything like > this before. It's a little odd. > > Thanks, > Amita -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
