Dead Fly in Lens Won’t Have Much Effect on Image Quality

[sevres_babylone]

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

 

[Steve M.]

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]

I had an SLR with a bug on the focusing screen. Ugly.

 

[nickthetasmaniac]

I used to take head shots of chickens in Hawaii through chain fencing.

I have to ask, why?

 

[peterm1]

I have to ask, why?

Well perhaps it was a very savage chicken. Or isn’t that why you were asking😀

 

[xayraa33]

I had an SLR with a bug on the focusing screen. Ugly.

I had an SLR with a similar thing.

Always wondered how it got in there and why.

 

[Bolo Kukus]

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.

 

[kxl]

I had an SLR with a bug on the focusing screen. Ugly.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. 😉

 

[pagpow]

Always wondered how it got in there and why.

I'm thinking it got lost on the way to the soup.

 

[p.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.