Warning: Radioactive lenses make good bug zappers

[Jack Conrad]

I was giving my new old Super Takumar 50mm 1.4 a nice UV treatment this past week to clear the yellowing. All was well till this morning. I looked at it and found this smack dab in the middle behind what appears to be the second element from the front. :bang:

It hadn't occurred to me before, but UV lamp bulbs are used as flying insect attractants in yard bug zappers.

For me, the tiny tragedy is that this lens has a ding in the filter thread, making it quite difficult, if not impossible to remove the front elements. It's like a bug in Amber.

 

[pakeha]

https://www.micro-tools.com/store/item_detail.aspx?ItemCode=LV1

 

[pakeha]

above is a link , have a look, even if this is too much to pay, you can see how it works and maybe sort something out yourself. cool photo.

 

[former member]

I had a bug die on a Focus Screen of a Retina Reflex IV. Kept using the camera.

How did it get in there! Or is it a radioactively enhanced Dust Mite...

 

[Jack Conrad]

Ha! I didn't think a flying insect could get inside a lens like that.
And then to have it die dead eye in the middle. Kind of sad really, but funny too.
Poor old lens.
One way or another, I'm gonna use it. Maybe some sort of magical radioactive light transmutation will occur and cause all the photos taken with it to become especially sublime... as if little angels are dancing upon the images.

Hey, I'm a sucker for serendipity.

Oh, and thanks for the link. Cool little tool. Too bad it costs twice what I paid for the lens. Drat! it's hard to rationalize using so much effort to scrape a bug off a $10 piece of glass.

 

[mackigator]

Maybe it will give you cool bug shaped bokeh.

 

[ampguy]

I'd keep it there

I'd keep it there

It will make all of your images unique!!

I was giving my new old Super Takumar 50mm 1.4 a nice UV treatment this past week to clear the yellowing. All was well till this morning. I looked at it and found this smack dab in the middle behind what appears to be the second element from the front. :bang:

It hadn't occurred to me before, but UV lamp bulbs are used as flying insect attractants in yard bug zappers.

For me, the tiny tragedy is that this lens has a ding in the filter thread, making it quite difficult, if not impossible to remove the front elements. It's like a bug in Amber.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Maybe it will give you cool bug shaped bokeh.

Not bokeh: bugeh!

Cheers,

R.