Painted it matt black? Won't it make it hard to read the f-stops since they are stamped in black also?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 5:14 PM Subject: Re: Horror!! > Perhaps you don't need to remove the lens mount in the 1st place. Just > remove the black plastic screwed on the lens mount might give u enough space > to work on the lens. Much better than removing the mount. But I have not > worked on this particular lens (though I painted it matt black). > > regards, > Alan Chan > > >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. :) > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > - > 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 .
