Thanks Fred. I was not particularly concerned but the lens was sold as "dusty". This camera shop is very particular about labeling these things. I could not see any "dust" until I opened the aperature up and zoomed out to 28mm. At that point there is actually quite a bit of "dust." The lens hardly looks like it was ever used. The sticker is still pretty new on it. I suppose the zooming action sucks in a certain amount of dust into any lens but as you say it is nothing to worry about... I'll test the daylights out of it over the next few weeks- Maybe put it up against the Pentax 28-105 and see how it does... I love the Pentax FA 28-105 but I must say this big manual focus lens feels a lot better in the hand and on the LX...
Vic In a message dated 11/5/02 11:20:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Unless there's really a lot of dust or flecks, or the flecks were actually really large flakes, I think that the effect would be so slight as to not be noticeable. (They will cause an insignificant loss of light and an insignificant increase in diffraction effects, which will cause an insignificant decrease in contrast.) (Did I mention "insignificant"?) As for attempting to clean 'em out, I personally wouldn't bother. Of course, Vic, you are ~still~ fully justified in being just a wee bit anal about the whole thing - <g>. >>
