On 30/12/06, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
If it's in an inter-element cavity I definitely wouldn't suggest trying to remove it yourself. As Bob suggested it's likely aluminum and is probably a small burr from a fine thread. If it's not posing problems to your image making I'd just try to forget about it. -- 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
