Severe mold damaged lens - what would you do ?

Andreas Thaler · Feb 5, 2024

Don_ih said:
There is a difference between keeping a lens with fungus on a shelf next to some other lenses and keeping it in a camera bag with other lenses. In an more enclosed space, particularly one that already encourages the growth of fungus, the spores which are produced by the infected lens will be of a higher concentration and so it will be more likely the other lenses become infected.

Just like you are more likely to contract a cold when you spend all day sitting next to a guy who has a cold in a crowded classroom, as opposed to sitting next to the same guy on a park bench with the wind blowing.

Please see what I wrote about this in the thread.

I no longer want to take part in any fungus infection discussion, I have said everything about it from my side

Don_ih · Feb 5, 2024

Andreas Thaler said:
Please see what I wrote about this in the thread.

I saw what you wrote. And it doesn't change the fact that, if you put an infected lens in an enclosed space with uninfected lenses, you are increasing their exposure to spores. There will be a higher concentration of viable spores due to an active fungal growth.

Andreas Thaler · Feb 5, 2024

Don_ih said:
I saw what you wrote. And it doesn't change the fact that, if you put an infected lens in an enclosed space with uninfected lenses, you are increasing their exposure to spores. There will be a higher concentration of viable spores due to an active fungal growth.

You need suitable environmental conditions to turn the spores into a mushroom.

Fungus probably even dries out in dry environments.

I see this with lenses where small fungus stars are no longer active. The fungus also needs something to eat, and if there is none or too little, it dies.

Again, if fungus were contagious, my closet would already be full of moldy lenses, because there are definitely some that have fungus stars. But since my closet is not an incubator, there is no fungal epidemic.

You can't avoid the fact that the spores are everywhere.

Otherwise see Zeiss.

Don_ih · Feb 5, 2024

Andreas Thaler said:
Otherwise see Zeiss.

I saw Zeiss. Stop assuming the person you're talking to knows nothing.
And maybe try to understand what I said. I'm not going over it again. The way you're speaking, fungus would never happen.

Andreas Thaler · Feb 5, 2024

Don_ih said:
I saw Zeiss. Stop assuming the person you're talking to knows nothing.
And maybe try to understand what I said. I'm not going over it again. The way you're speaking, fungus would never happen.

I ask you not to assume anything about me.

I wish you a nice day.

koraks · Feb 5, 2024

I guess it helps if this discussion is cut short here so people no longer feel obliged to get in the last word.

If someone (especially OP) wants to continue the thread, please don't hesitate to report any of the posts in it and indicate you'd like the thread to be re-opened, and please also indicate why. This is to prevent the recent back-and-forth to continue on its merry (but not very constructive) way.

Thank you.

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