I like it. Thanks for sharing. Otis Wright
Angel Ramos wrote: > Hi Gang! > I live in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, my home is 2 miles from the sea shore. > This is how I decided to get rid of the fungii problem > I had a couple years ago with a 50mm lens, that went to Pentax > heaven. The humidity here ( been an island) is a constant > from 75 % to 100% RH. As David wrote, I do not leave my cameras, or > lenses in any camera bag. All my bags are left > open and empty when not in use. Where do I store my photographic gear > when not in use? I bought a dessicator > cabinet from Fisher Scientific (www.fisherscientific.com). I tried to > find a used one with no luck. This one is a basic, > more economical I could find with the capacity I wanted. It measures > about 45.5cm High, 34.5cm Wide and 34.5cm Deep. > It is made in lexan and has a door seal. I paid around $330 including > shipping. You can argue that it is expensive but, > hey!, I have more than 4 grand in lenses and cameras. I was able to fit > all my lenses including a 400mm AF -F5.6 SD > Tokina lens, an FA F2.8 100mm, an FA* F1.4 85mm, all my other lenses ( > total of 22 lenses 5 of them for mid format > cameras I have). Also inside the cabinet are my 4 Pentax bodies, when > not in use. The cabinet has 2 trays and the bottom > area. It comes with a tray for indicating silica gel, which I ( I am a > chemist) got from labs I visit. I use the microwave oven > to regenerate the silica. I am going to buy new fresh silica from > Fisher also. My plans is to buy another cabinet for my 2 medium > format bodies, I can not afford to loose any of the equipment due to > fungus or ( if you have never seen this, I have!) fungus > eating bugs!. I had this into the prism area of my now dead Pentax ME > Super some years ago. The humidity > inside the chamber is kept at 35 to 40 % RH as measured with a small > digital RH meter I bought in Wind and Weather for > 25 bucks (www.windandweather.com) which is inside the cabinet. > > If any of you need details just let me know. > > Angel > > David Chang-Sang wrote: > > >Hi Stan, > > > >First let me say that I use your site ALL the time as a reference when I'm > >looking for used Pentax lenses on Ebay or other places. It's a god send.. > >thank you. > > > >Now.. your fungus problem. > >All I could find on the web that seemed to sort of validate your point was > >the following: > > > >http://www.biotech.ufl.edu/EM/data/lenseatingfungi.html which is a > >biotech/biomed account of some instances amongst some collegues at > >university of florida > > > >http://www.chem.helsinki.fi/~toomas/photo/fungus/ an interesting page on > >lens fungus with images and a particularly interesting statement that may > >help you in your arguement: > > > >"If you use your equipment in damp environments, let it dry as soon as you > >return into a drier room. Never leave your equipment in a closed > >(splashproof) camera bag when it need not be there. Leather lens cases are > >known to be especially bad, because leather is a natural product where fungi > >can grow before they proceed on to the lens" > > > >The mere fact that the fungus can transfer from a leather lens case to a > >lens may suggest it's ability to move/transfer from lens to lens should > >lenses be stored together. > > > > > >Most of the pages/sites I spotted are good at explaining why fungus grows > >and how to stop it but not one of them actually stated that it does actually > >"spread" from lens to lens. > > > >Hope this helps. > > > >Cheers< > >Dave > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stan Halpin > >Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:12 PM > >To: PDML > >Subject: Fungus sanity check please . . . > > > > > >I recently bought a used lens on eBay. It arrived with slightly smeared > >glass. I cleaned the lens, front and back, and looked through and saw little > >squiggly lines 1mm or so in length a few places around the edge of the front > >element. Cleaned the front some more to be sure, and confirmed that the > >little squiggly fuzzy lines are on the back side of the front element. > >Fungus I said. Actually what I said first was something else that rhymes > >with hoover. As Wendy would say. > > > >So I email the seller and tell him I don't want fungus. Fine, he says, send > >it back. I could clean it, I says, but I could not be sure of sanitizing it, > >and I don't want the fungus to spread to my other lenses. How about a > >professional cleaning? > > > >The seller is willing to have me get an estimate for a professional CLA of > >the lens. But he is also ridiculing the notion that a lens which is all > >fungused up is in any way a danger to other lenses. Like, "how would the > >fungus get out to 'infect' the other lenses!?!?" > > > >Tell me I am not crazy! Tell me I am not repeating a myth, that fungus is > >"contagious" and destructive. Even better, give me the URL of an > >authoritative source on this topic. > > > >Thanks. > > > >Stan > >- > >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 . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. 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