Feasibility of DIY front element scratch removal.

[bmattock]

I've heard a quote from somewhere, along the line ... "there's perfection in imperfection", and I guess this applies very well to the Summar 🙂 Enjoy the lens as it is and a Happy New Year to you too!!!

And no, I think you got the wrong face. I've never use a Fuji RF... yet...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

Wabi-sabi (in Kanji: 侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic. It is difficult to explain wabi-sabi in Western terms, but the aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, or incomplete. A concept derived from the Buddhist assertion of the first noble truth - Dukkha.

This concept makes some people angry, for reasons I do not understand. This makes me like it even more.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[regit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi



This concept makes some people angry, for reasons I do not understand. This makes me like it even more.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

Ah... I came across this term before in a issue of B&W magazine. Can't remember the photographer's name, but his images are most execllent!!! Can't follow his style either as he is using wet-plate camera!!!

 

[merciful]

I have an uncoated 50/2 Summar, and though there is a slight haze, the biggest "problem" is the front element surface with many scratches.

Shit, who cares about a few scratches? You should seen my 85/2 and 35/1.8. They look sandblasted.

 

[jaapv]

People used to grind their own mirror for astronomical telescopes, using various grades of carborundum grit from coarse to extremely fine. That would be the stuff to polish a lens element.