Don't worry about it. It wasn't really a dumb question. It's just that it would probably be a bit foolish to attempt it without a lot of lens repair experience. But you knew that. In any case, I had my Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5 disassembled and cleaned at a local camera repair shop. I believe the charge was $75, but this included removal of a minimal amount of fungus. Paul
gabriel bovino wrote: > Sorry guys... that guy was me. :( > > I wasn't actually going to take it apart.... but was more curious to see > whether it was possible and how someone would go about doing this. > > There is actually what appears to be a small piece of hair on the inside of > the rear element. I had posted several weeks back a question to see if > anyone has ever sent their lens to pentax to have the lenses cleaned and > roughly how much it would cost. But no one every replied. > > I've e-mailed pentax and they cannot give me a rough estimate without me > sending my lens to them. > > I posted the message to see (and maybe I was very naive for asking) if > whether indeed it was an easy task to remove the bayonet mount and clean the > rear element, if indeed that's where the little hair is. It seemed like > people in that newsgroup have probably done stuff like that and I wanted to > see what the exact process would be. If I know correctly.... removing the > bayonet to get the rear element would probably be disastrous. I'm assuming > there are little springs that hold the ball-bearing contacts in place and > that would probably be a pain in the a*$ 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 . - 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 .
