Nope, I've never had a metal shaving appear in a lens, although I've had dust and other debris in lenses. I would disassemble that lens and remove the sliver. If it's a manual focus 50, you might as well try to do it yourself, as the price of a disassembly and cleaning would exceed the cost of the lens. If you're not comfortable with that kind of work and it's an F or an FA lens, you might want to have a pro technician do it. Figure on spending about sixty or seventy dollars US. While you may not think it's causing problems, there is undoubtedly some diffusion even when the piece doesn't actually appear in your pics. Paul On Dec 29, 2006, at 6:18 PM, rg2 wrote:
> Hey all > > Here's a question for you. Have any of you experienced metal shavings > inside of your lenses? I have a 50mm 1:1.4 and it appears to have > a small > sliver of metal on the piece of glass directly below the outer lens > (in the > center, of course). It is about 1mm long and a quarter of a > millimeter > wide, and I am quite perplexed by it. It doesn't show up in my > pictures > unless I take a picture of the sky or something with one color, but it > bothers me a great deal because I'm not sure how it got there. My > father > said it was probably a small piece of the metal casing of the > lenses, and > after trying to coax it out by bringing a magnet near the outer > lens, he > suggested I bring the lens to someone who could professionally > disassemble > it and remove it. Since it's not ruining my pictures, I'm not very > concerned about removing it, rather, I am simply curious as to > whether or > not anyone else has run into the same problem. > > rg2 > > > -- > 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
