On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 08:30 PM, Chris Niesmertelny wrote:
I'm completely disappointed. Most of my lens collection is suffering from a
very fine coating of internal dust. I don't have an expensive collection
but it is fairly complete from 24mm to 200mm, and thankfully my 43mm does
not have the dusty accumulation present.
I've two questions for the group:
1) Which repair center do you recommend (in the continental US) to
undertake such a project?
2) How do you deal with dust, and how do you store and protect your lenses?
I keep my lenses in a closet in a bedroom my wife and I use as an office.
Until recently, this office was also the bathroom for our cats, hence I
believe this dust is composed of tiny particles of kitty litter. I thought
I was fairly rigorous in my regime of keeping that closet and the office
tidy, but I'm afraid I was not successful.
Your kind help and advice is appreciated.
Best regards,
Chris
That is a complete bummer. I feel for you. I can't offer any advice on what to do but one thing you shouldn't do is expose any of them to high humidity or put them in a situation where condensation is a possibility. If it is in fact clay dust, humidity or water can make it set, making it harder to remove and I fear it would make it more likely to put fine scratches on the lens during removal.
As far as storage, they stay in caps and in their respective cases for the most part. Plus, we don't smoke, or fry much which helps an awful lot.
Good luck, I'm sure someone here can steer you to a good service center.
Dan Scott
