Hello, I was in Brazil last january and found a very old 70-300 F4.5-5.6 lens I used to have a long time ago. I stopped using this lens because it is a U42 and at that time I didn't have an adapter to K-mount. So, I found the lens and it was completely full of fungus. So I gave up the lens and my brother started playing around with it and one of the things he tried to kill the fungus was: First he put the lens in the fridge and fungus got worse. Than he tried the microwave and fungus completely disappeared (by eye, at least). As I was coming back to USA I didn't have time to test if the optics is still good. I am waiting to come back next summer and see if the lens is still ok.
Alex "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > At the risk of sounding naive, wouldn't a couple eminutes in the microwave kill the >little buggers? Or would you risk melting the glass or the glue? What about other >forms of radiation, like the kind that was being studied to kill anthrax in mail >equipment? > > Mike wrote: Immediate isolation is required for the > infested lens and regular inspection of the others. There is no > easy, cheap solution for this. Except maybe scrapping the > infested lens. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexandre A. P. Suaide, Ph.D. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] STAR/EMC Research Group Phone: 1-313-577-5419 Department of Physics and Astronomy Wayne State University ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
