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The only measure to prevent this from ever happening is not to provide the spores any chance to germinate at all by depriving them of nutrients and other variable essential for them to thrive. This is something that is impossible to avoid because the tiny fungal spores responsible for this is everywhere, from the air we breath to every surface that we touch. It can hurt, I know.įungus in a lens is something that all photographers try to avoid as much as possible. If you are easily offended at the sight of a dirty lens then this blog post is not for you! Do not say that I didn’t warn you because you will see some disturbing images in this post and if you are a true Nikkor lover then look away.
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It has worked so far and the lenses stay clean and clear. This is something that I have been doing to any lens that I bought that has fungus in it. This is also a niche topic that is not commonly discussed and even if you found one on the internet or other media, the information that is being presented is usually sparse and scattered all over the net so you will have to hunt for them and decide which one works and which one doesn’t. For this reason, I will share to you my fungus removal routine.
Disassembling om system lens how to#
I have some people ask me about how to remove fungus from a lens. Nikon has made a lot of lenses but I can only afford a few to feature on the blog. I will promise that I will make these filler posts as educational as possible and with the same standards as my teardown posts so that you, my readers will not get bored reading my blog. It also dawned to me that in order to keep this blog alive, I should not post a lens teardown every week because I will quickly run out of lenses to write about! A balance has to be struck so I will write filler posts like these in between the teardown posts so I hope that you don’t mind.
Disassembling om system lens full#
PS: Always always take many photos of each step you're doing.Hello, everybody! I was a bit busy with a wedding yesterday ( photographer#2) so I did not have the time to prepare for a full lens teardown post so I decide to write something else instead this time. Hope that some of this is helpful to you, This will minimise the chance for the name ring to tilt off-axis and get stuck. Degrease name ring, put cap on the ring with some pressure, unscrew. Then, put double side sticky tape on the edge of the cap. Name ring: Look for a back lens cap or anything with the fitting diameter. Best done at far distance (lens retracted), cause you will put the torque on the two guiding levers inside. Then try to unscrew the whole front barrel with the name ring in one piece. Loose this screw (check on nearest distance if there are more of these). Tiny screw on front lens barrel: Usually this is a stopping screw for a thread underneath.
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You could also just break off that lever from the lens :-) If you're lazy you could try to slightly bend the aperture lever, so that it does pass the taking mechanism on the cam. I will just write down what could be useful, hoping that it does apply to your lens (which I do not know).