Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Beginner's Questions => Topic started by: hs0zfe on December 26, 2009, 08:14:16 am
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Hi All,
I'm selling my Mamiya gear on eBay. First, a new 4.0/210 mm lens for the 645. bought as new, never used and when I photographed it for the listing, there was not a speck of dust on the front lens.
Now the buyer clasims "fungus on the front lens". In 96 hours?!? No way!
So I asked for macro photos and got some weird stuff back. all I know, this is an eBay scam!
[color="#000000"][/color]Such a scam artist is targeting 100% feedback guys who will wish to avoid a first negative feedback. Is this something you all know? Just wondering.
A second buyer claims fungus on the 2 rear lenses of a 250 mm lens for the RB-67. He wants a discount and sounds more plausible. Will accomodate him, but asked for macro photos.
Which brings me to the question of how labor extensive is a CLA service on Mamiya lenses? Are the individual lenses held by some kind of glue? And how serious is fungus on lenses?
i took my gear to Thailand - maybe the higher humidity triggered something?
Will try and upload some photos later.
Cheers,
Chris
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Hi All,
I'm selling my Mamiya gear on eBay. First, a new 4.0/210 mm lens for the 645. bought as new, never used and when I photographed it for the listing, there was not a speck of dust on the front lens.
Now the buyer clasims "fungus on the front lens". In 96 hours?!? No way!
So I asked for macro photos and got some weird stuff back. all I know, this is an eBay scam!
[color="#000000"][/color]Such a scam artist is targeting 100% feedback guys who will wish to avoid a first negative feedback. Is this something you all know? Just wondering.
A second buyer claims fungus on the 2 rear lenses of a 250 mm lens for the RB-67. He wants a discount and sounds more plausible. Will accomodate him, but asked for macro photos.
Which brings me to the question of how labor extensive is a CLA service on Mamiya lenses? Are the individual lenses held by some kind of glue? And how serious is fungus on lenses?
i took my gear to Thailand - maybe the higher humidity triggered something?
Will try and upload some photos later.
Cheers,
Chris
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Hi All,
I'm selling my Mamiya gear on eBay. First, a new 4.0/210 mm lens for the 645. bought as new, never used and when I photographed it for the listing, there was not a speck of dust on the front lens.
Now the buyer clasims "fungus on the front lens". In 96 hours?!? No way!
So I asked for macro photos and got some weird stuff back. all I know, this is an eBay scam!
[color="#000000"][/color]Such a scam artist is targeting 100% feedback guys who will wish to avoid a first negative feedback. Is this something you all know? Just wondering.
A second buyer claims fungus on the 2 rear lenses of a 250 mm lens for the RB-67. He wants a discount and sounds more plausible. Will accomodate him, but asked for macro photos.
Which brings me to the question of how labor extensive is a CLA service on Mamiya lenses? Are the individual lenses held by some kind of glue? And how serious is fungus on lenses?
i took my gear to Thailand - maybe the higher humidity triggered something?
Will try and upload some photos later.
Cheers,
Chris
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I always thought fungus was the kiss of death for a lens. Doesn't it eat into the coatings?
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Living in Hawaii fungus is a common problem, it usually is not to the point that coatings are damaged.
John at focal point has done a great job cleaning lenses for me, about $200 each and they come back looking new!
http://www.focalpointlens.com/fp_intro.html (http://www.focalpointlens.com/fp_intro.html)
Marc
To prevent the fungus I use zorb-its in my camera bags
http://zorb-it.com/Scripts/default.asp (http://zorb-it.com/Scripts/default.asp)
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To prevent the fungus I use zorb-its in my camera bags
http://zorb-it.com/Scripts/default.asp (http://zorb-it.com/Scripts/default.asp)
Oooo! Very cool! Thanks for posting this.
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Thanks for posting this guys. This is very very coooool. I have a bunch of friends in Florida having this issue. JP
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Also the MAC group has cleaned a few of my mamiya lenses for $200 and they return looking new
Marc