sevres_babylone
Veteran
DPReview highlighted a Lens Rental report on the effect of a dead fly in a zoom lens. Not much. Though a pain to remove.
(And I know us purists would say, “Of course, not it’s a zoom lens anyway
”)
https://www.dpreview.com/news/03820...nd-a-dead-fly-hidden-inside-one-of-its-lenses
(And I know us purists would say, “Of course, not it’s a zoom lens anyway
”)https://www.dpreview.com/news/03820...nd-a-dead-fly-hidden-inside-one-of-its-lenses
Steve M.
Veteran
Lenses are funny. I used to take head shots of chickens in Hawaii through chain fencing. If you put the lens up to the fence w/ the aperture wide open, it would actually focus PAST the fencing that was running right across the front optic's field of view. I mean, the fencing would disappear in the SLR's viewfinder when focusing on the curious chicken, and it wasn't there on the negs either.
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
I had an SLR with a bug on the focusing screen. Ugly.
nickthetasmaniac
Veteran
peterm1
Veteran
Well perhaps it was a very savage chicken. Or isn’t that why you were asking😀
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
I had an SLR with a similar thing.
Always wondered how it got in there and why.
DownUnder
Nikon Nomad
A fly in a lens? Well, I never...! Bugs in cameras, yes. Don't get me going on my new Nikon Z6...
You should put the lens on Ebay with a humungusly high BIN price. Say "rare" and "collectable" (you can spell the latter as "collectible" for greater impact, or as "collect-able" for the more clueless Ebay browsers to figure out) and clean up big time.
If it's a Nikon 58mm 1.4 nine-bladed S from circa 1960, you could name your price and treat yourself to a gala round-the-world photo shoot on the sale.
On a more serious (seriouser) vein, I was at my camera repair shop this morning and asked my service man about lens bugs. His reply: not to bother if shooting at fairly wide (f/4-f/5.6) apertures. The cost of dismantling/cleaning/reassembling the lens is also a factor, he went on to say. Do a test and see what the results show.
The very savage chicken post had him (almost) rolling on the floor, however. Good one, that.
You should put the lens on Ebay with a humungusly high BIN price. Say "rare" and "collectable" (you can spell the latter as "collectible" for greater impact, or as "collect-able" for the more clueless Ebay browsers to figure out) and clean up big time.
If it's a Nikon 58mm 1.4 nine-bladed S from circa 1960, you could name your price and treat yourself to a gala round-the-world photo shoot on the sale.
On a more serious (seriouser) vein, I was at my camera repair shop this morning and asked my service man about lens bugs. His reply: not to bother if shooting at fairly wide (f/4-f/5.6) apertures. The cost of dismantling/cleaning/reassembling the lens is also a factor, he went on to say. Do a test and see what the results show.
The very savage chicken post had him (almost) rolling on the floor, however. Good one, that.
kxl
Social Documentary
pagpow
Well-known
I'm thinking it got lost on the way to the soup.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
I had a Minolta lens with a bug in it.
Other than turning everyone's portraits into Spiderman, there was no other visible effect on the pictures. Some sort of early snapchat filter or something.
Other than turning everyone's portraits into Spiderman, there was no other visible effect on the pictures. Some sort of early snapchat filter or something.