Sorry guys... that guy was me. :( I wasn't actually going to take it apart.... but was more curious to see whether it was possible and how someone would go about doing this.
There is actually what appears to be a small piece of hair on the inside of the rear element. I had posted several weeks back a question to see if anyone has ever sent their lens to pentax to have the lenses cleaned and roughly how much it would cost. But no one every replied. I've e-mailed pentax and they cannot give me a rough estimate without me sending my lens to them. I posted the message to see (and maybe I was very naive for asking) if whether indeed it was an easy task to remove the bayonet mount and clean the rear element, if indeed that's where the little hair is. It seemed like people in that newsgroup have probably done stuff like that and I wanted to see what the exact process would be. If I know correctly.... removing the bayonet to get the rear element would probably be disastrous. I'm assuming there are little springs that hold the ball-bearing contacts in place and that would probably be a pain in the a*$ to re-assemble... and not to mention possibly calibrating the lens if any elements were removed. Anyways... at least I got a response from PDMLers by posting the question on another newsgroup. :) The optically challenged, Gabe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frantisek Vlcek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alan Abbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 5:41 AM Subject: Re: Horror!! > Saturday, February 02, 2002, 11:41:30 AM, Alan wrote: > AA> I have just found this msg on the yahoo group Camera fix aghhh! > > > AA> "Has anyone every cleaned the dust out of a Pentax 43mm 1.9 Limited? If > AA> so... should I try to take this upon myself to disassemble this lens to > AA> clean it? I've never done it before... > AA> Any advice would be greatly appreciated." > AA> At least I worked on an old 28 f2.8 first! > AA> Alan > > Yes, Alan, I was ROTFL at the message too (being on camera-fix as > well) <G>. I didn't yet reply to it, though. Perhaps I could buy the > lens in pieces from him and let Pentax repair it and get a Ltd much > cheaper than used one ;-) ? > > Just joking. I would advise the guy to not attempt it... > > Good light, > Frantisek Vlcek > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
