Lens dust is great

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I just bought a 2nd hand Nikon 18-70mm, the body was in as new condition not a mark on both the glass & the body even the hood was pristine.

Only problem it had considerable amounts of dust under the front element, which the seller discribe.

Anyways i bought this lens for a grand total amount of £55 :D

Well the lens came today & yes it had many dust bunnies plenty of breeding been going on inside this lens & what also look like a pube :gag::gag:.

Were the hell the person had this lens i shudder to think.

Anyways i removed the front Glass by taking off the lens ring sticker 2 small watchmakers screwdrivers and twisted the lens and out it pop's get a lenspen use the brush clean it all, and cleans the glass to put it all back together now the lens looks like new again 25 mins in total, it's now free of both that pube & the mega amounts of dust that was in there.

Im now deciding to keep it and use it with the D40 or sell it on for a profit :thumbs:
 
faaaaaaaaaaaaar too much information :naughty:
 
Doesn't it concern you how it might have got in there? :gag:

Bob
 
Hope you fully cleaned the whole lens with something to get rid of any other "juices"
 
If you do sell it don't forget to add a pube for the next owner, it's only right :lol:
 
Im guess with all the crap that was inside it, that it had been left on the floor for a good amount of time.

I haven't a clue how a pube had got in there, but it was there & it was even curly aswell.
 
The pubic lice will have laid eggs, so make sure you wear elastic sleeves, as they'll be crawling up your arms whenever you zoom!
 
now I know why I have a Canon!
 
Hmmm nasty looking little buggers these lice

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Nope thank god deffo none of these little critters in there aswell.

On a side note this shot has good composition :P
 
Lol i love who this post has gone from dust & a pube in the glass of a lens to lice to Yoda.

But i have to agree it does look like him ha ha.
 
Wilky76 said:
I'm now deciding to keep it and use it with the D40 or sell it on for a profit :thumbs:
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I'd hang on to it until someone posts a wanted ad for a lens with a pube in it....you'll have the market cornered and it'll be just a case of name your price (unless they're more common than I imagine :shrug:)

Bob
 
First of all you can buy a specific tool to undo the lens front element - safer than a pair of compasses. If you are going to raid the school geometry kit I would use a set of dividers with a screw lock.

As a general case some people recommend using a sucker to remove the element because some lenses aparently have bits that can fall out if you just upend it. edit: just to lift it out once unscrewed - you dont unscrew with the sucker. and only lift if you cant get to it by hand.

I assume the golden ring there is a spacer? One thing you should do is make sure that your lens still focuses at infinity afterwards - the position of the front element being a little out can cause it to either fail to focus to infinity or to focus beyond infinity.

Look up collination for techniques.
 
who? said:
First of all you can buy a specific tool to undo the lens front element - safer than a pair of compasses. If you are going to raid the school geometry kit I would use a set of dividers with a screw lock.

As a general case some people recommend using a sucker to remove the element because some lenses aparently have bits that can fall out if you just upend it. edit: just to lift it out once unscrewed - you dont unscrew with the sucker. and only lift if you cant get to it by hand.

I assume the golden ring there is a spacer? One thing you should do is make sure that your lens still focuses at infinity afterwards - the position of the front element being a little out can cause it to either fail to focus to infinity or to focus beyond infinity.

Look up collination for techniques.
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I don't think you can buy a tool just for undoing Nikon lenses.

Also, there is nothing apart from the spacer that comes out when you take the top glass of, it still focuses to infinity.... but not beyond.:D after the clean

The front element is just screwed in nothing more, all the magical stuff is done behind the second lens.

If you take it in to a repair center to be cleaned, they will do excactly the same thing and charge you for it.

It's a real easy job to do.

I did a Canon 28-135mm lens last year for a freind that had dust inside the lens.

I've still got the step by step i did for him to show him what to do.

The lens still works just as good after taking the front glass of as it did when it was brand new.

here the images

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