[LRflex] Re: WAS: lens cleaning fluid, NOW: Lens Zits
- From: <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:44:34 -0800
Hi David, naw it was one before your time. ;-)
cheers,
ted
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Scollard" <publisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 7:33 AM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: WAS: lens cleaning fluid, NOW: Lens Zits
> Ted - was that the lens you sold me??!! I just took a look at it and I
> can't
> see any zits. David
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Young" <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 8:11 AM
> Subject: [LRflex] WAS: lens cleaning fluid, NOW: Lens Zits
>
>
> Ted wrote:
>
>>Oh yeah I forgot about that one! :-) In other words do not work too close
>>to
>>a welder while he's making sparks usually of molten metal flying through
>>the
>>air. :-(
>>
>>I wanted a nice tight shot, so I had a 28mm on an R camera of some sort
>>and
>>was in really close to all the flying stuff, obviously not thinking about
>>any of it landing on the front element.
>>
>>Well it did and burnt a zit right into the glass! My first reaction was...
>>"SH.. ruined lens!" :-( Nope it worked just fine zit and all.
>
>
> G'monin' Ted, Dave & All.
>
> I agree with what Ted says about shooting through Chain Link fences,
> etc. And, I don't usually use filters on my lenses, but I make sure
> I own 'em!
>
> You see, about 18 months ago, pursuit of the "perfect shot" led me to
> shoot some barrel racers from the bucking chutes at our local rodeo
> grounds. This put me about 1.5 to 2 meters from the barrel, so I
> could shoot with a w/a lens. One of the horses sprayed up a huge
> bunch of stones and, to make a short story shorter, one put a stone
> chip (just like you'd get in the windshield of your car) in the
> center of the front element of my lens. In many photos, this too
> was not really visible, though on a dark surface, you'd see a
> noticeable "white mark", in the center of my images!
>
> Advice, here, suggested that treating the crack with a black "magic
> marker", to fill the crack. With nothing to lose, I tried it, only to
> find that now, if I had a light surface in the middle of my image,
> the chip would show up as a dark spot - which looked even worse!
>
> In the end, it cost me for a replacement front element. (Ouch!)
>
> So, now, when doing anything which might cause damage to my lenses I
> make sure I have good quality filters on, simply for protection.
>
> Cheers!
>
> ---
> David Young
> Logan Lake, Canada.
>
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