I just a Tokina 80-200 f:2.8 for $100 that the store was sure had fungus on
it. It didn't look quite the same as the real fungus on the 300 4.5 I got
for Olaf (same store). I took a chance, bought the lens and took it to a
repair shop. They cleaned off the LUBRICANT for $10. WOW! What a lens!
Take a close look, if there are "tendrils" and fibers it is likely fungus.
If it looks "smeary", it hopefully is lubricant.
Brian Huber
-----Original Message-----
From: John Gettis [SMTP:jgettis81@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 1999 3:02 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Lens fungus
Are you sure that it is fungus? My wife has a soligar 400 that had a
problem
with oil off the aperture blades that go on a element of the lens. Also
had a
similar problem with a Tokina zoom lens for her pentax. The repair shop
was
able to clean both lenses.
John Gettis
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