I just brought the 28-105 Kiron that I bought "marked dusty" to my favourite camera store that does on-site repairs. Showed it to the owner. He checked it out and said not to worry. It was no big deal and would not do anything to the quality of the images. He knows I'm particular about things. There is a fair bit of dust (or whatever) in the lens so your situation is probably absolutely nothing to get upset about. These lenses will pick up dust anyway so I wouldn't worry about it... Vic
In a message dated 11/7/02 3:10:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I shone a halide desk-lamp through mine both ways, I'm now a little blind I think however I did spy with my working eye heaps of dust boulders and one small hair (which looked like a fungus filament but wasn't). However when I view it under normal light it looks fine (and so do the images that it makes on film). I don't believe that many photo enthusiast spec lenses are delivered completely free from dust even factory fresh (my new APO Leica lenses weren't) however finger prints and wipe marks shouldn't be tolerated. Are all your other lenses much cleaner than this 200? Cheers, Rob Studdert >>
