Dawid,
I wasn't refering to you with the buyer's remorse comment, but to my own
personal experience.
Is this a really good copy of this lens? Was the price good? As they don't
come along every day, perhaps you would do well to send it to John Hermanson
and get it cleaned.
Bill Pearce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawid Loubser" <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:50 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OM-1 Viewfinder
Hi,
No, this is not buyer's remorse at all, and certainly not even a few,
or a few hundred, specks
of dust, this is a strange deposit inside the lens. In anyway, I am
still thrilled, it just seems as if it something
which should (and could) be cleaned...
Of course dirt in the lens can cause flare / halation / contrast loss!
- I can clearly see the flare
rings reflect off the junk in the lens when I point into the sun.
However, a bit of dust won't do this, this
is much worse.
Anyway, it still appears to be a great lens, and I will definitely
"shoot and be happy" :-)
thanks for the interest, and regards,
Dawid
On 29 Sep 2008, at 3:57 PM, <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> I may be wrong but I find it difficult to believe that any amount of
> dust or paint flecks that a lens may accumulate internally can have
> any visible effect at all on an actual photograph. I don't see how
> they can cause "flare" in any way and the total surface area of the
> "dust" relative to the total surface area of the glass has to be
> minuscule. It would be interesting to perform a test of a common
> target between two identical lenses... on with "dust" and the other
> supposedly clean.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>> -------Original Message-------
>> From: Sue Pearce <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [OM] Re: OM-1 Viewfinder
>> Sent: Sep 29 '08 13:28
>>
>>
>> Regarding the specks in the 90mm Macro, I am going to
>> take a photo and post a link to it here sometime to
>> get this list's opinion. I agree, I am going to complain to the
>> seller, he mentioned a 'few specks of dust' which is, of course, of
>> no concern (I am not one of those people who worry about dust in a
>> lens), but this is really rather a *lot* of worryingly uniform
>> (in terms of coverage across the lens element) specks, visible
>> only in sharp, direct sun, which appears to make
>> the lens rather flare-prone (looking through the finder,
>> anyway, have not looked at film results yet) , because sunlight
>> shining into the lens is obviously seriously reflecting off
>> of them."
>>
>> Not tojump on you, Dawid, but this is a problem to me. I think this
>> is the
>> unfortunate offspring of ebay, as I don't remember specks of dust
>> to be a
>> problem years ago. I had a 35-70 purchased on ebay and returned
>> because when
>> the buyer shined a Tensor lamp into the front, he could see a
>> single small
>> speck. Since there was no speck visible under any other way, I
>> think it must
>> have been a reflection of something. I ferunded his money, and days
>> later he
>> announced on this list that he just purchased a complete E1 outfit.
>> I think
>> it may have been a speck of buyer's remorse.
>>
>> Specks of stuff, especially black paint, have been a reality in new
>> lenses
>> for decades, and we formerly were accepting of them. Not now.
>>
>> Don't worry, shoot and be happy.
>>
>> Bill Pearce
>>
>>
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