Excellent Lens Repair

SteveH · Feb 27, 2006

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Mongo · Feb 27, 2006

The shame of it is, you can generally clear a lens like that by just leaving it in the sun for a few weeks. Heavy doses of UV clear up the yellowing in a lot of that old glass. And that Takumar is a sweet lens. Oh well...at least he got some good pictures of his "repair".

jeroldharter · Feb 27, 2006

Very informative. As a psychiatrist having finished a weekend on call, I have something to learn from this approach.

mgb74 · Feb 27, 2006

Maybe I'm being too anal, but seems a disgusting thing to do to a lens that, even if the elements were completely unusable, would still be of use to someone for parts.

Strangely, while the text of the page inferred that the problem was just the lens element yellowing, I would expect they were aware of the cure.

vet173 · Feb 28, 2006

Works for me. I bet he wouldn't do that to a summicron.

BrianShaw · Feb 28, 2006

An interesting technique, but I am concerned a bit about his "form". Note the extreme contortion of his back... certainly an opportunity for a back strain injury.

My suggestion is to use this lens repair technique ONLY after the workplace has had a full ergonomic evaluation and the necessary corrections are made. As always, the appropriate safety equipment should be used.

John Koehrer · Feb 28, 2006

Ah, now I see it. I haven't been using the right tool for the job. Wouldn't it be more effective though, to use an anvil rather than a stump? I think you would achieve better compression.

Dan Fromm · Feb 28, 2006

Old news, sick joke.

Steve, you should be ashamed of yourself for posting it.

Curt · Mar 15, 2006

Dr. Harter you need to call in sick next call weekend. I know, you can't let the crew down but wouldn't a weekend of photographing do wonders for yourself?

Curt

gnashings · Mar 15, 2006

Honestly, there is a list so long that it would crash this forum's servers of things that I would love to treat to this "fix" - but I can say equally honestly, a lens was never on it. Seems like a shame to break aperfectly good lens that a little sunlight could fix.

Of course, it could be posted on eBay - I can see the caption:

"I know nothing about cameras, and although there is some damage to the glass, I am told it will in no way affect image quality..."

Peter.

paul ron · Mar 15, 2006

OH NO! DON'T DO IT! Send all your yellow lenses to me, I'll use em just as they are. Many people use yellow filters and pay dearly to have a quality filter. How much better can it get than a built in filter, made of quality radio active glass.

SEND YOUR LENSES TO ME???? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE????????? My Spotmatic will thank you.

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