Fungus remedy: 1. Find a brick or concrete wall. 2. Place yourself approximately 7 meters from the wall. 3. Hold the lens in your hand with the first two fingers of your hand on top of the lens barrel and the "pocket" formed by your thumb and curled third and forth fingers. 4. Turn so that you are "3/4" facing the wall, keep your eye on the wall. 5. Lean back, placing your weight on your rear foot, lifting your forward foot. Stretch your forward arm out toward the wall. 6. Begin to push forward toward the wall with your rear foot while at the same time propelling the lens forward with your two fingers. 7. As your forward foot nears the ground and your (was) rear arm whips rapidly forward with the lens, give that extra push forward with those two fingers thereby imparting more speed and a reverse spin which will add "lift" to the lens. 8. Pick up lens and extract the excess glass fragments. 9. Place on desk as paper weight.
Regards, Bob... ------------------------------- "In the carboniferous epoch we were promised perpetual peace. They swore if we gave up our weapons that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed they sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe. And the gods of the copybook headings said, 'Stick to the devil you know.' " --Rudyard Kipling ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristian Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:58 AM Subject: M50/1.4 fungus remedies? > Hi, > > Firstly, thanks to all for the tips on the Leica. It turned out to have > a messed up shutter (1sec varied between 1 and 2 seconds, and above 125 > the shutter didn't fully open). I'm waiting for a quote on a CLA before > I put my cash into it. Oh, and the lens had fungus. > > Speaking of which, the shop had a lovely M50/1.4 (or maybe a K -- don't > know how to tell them apart, but it wasn't an A. Minimum focus was > 0.48m, and there were 8 aperture blades - the casing felt like plastic > over metal). I had a quick try on their MZ-5n body and I was very > impressed. > > I know these questions come up occasionally, so here are some answers to > look up in future: > > - Auto-focus confirmation works (!!) - I was surprised at this, but I > suppose there's no reason why it wouldn't. > - The metering seems to work fine. I couldn't be entirely sure, but I > think spot and centre-weighted metering both work. > - The focus feel is fantastic ;-) > > ... so, why don't I have a nice 50/1.4 now? Well, it had not one but two > tiny fungal colonies. > > Does anyone know how to get rid of these, or is the lens doomed forever? > > -- > Kristian > > PS. The shop had actually received, and sold, a Contax N Digital, so > there must me some around somewhere. Price was �9500, but I think that > was with two zoom lenses. Can you imagine Pentax trying to get that kind > of money for a body? > - > 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 .
