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Inner fungal bloom issue, 6 month old Canon ef 70-300 L

Started Jan 18, 2013 | Discussions thread
OP sanderspics New Member • Posts: 8
Re: Inner fungal bloom issue, 6 month old Canon ef 70-300 L

nelsonal wrote:

I've cleaned out a bunch of lenses, newly formed fungus that's right behind the front element usually isn't a difficult repair. You might not want to do it yourself (taking apart an expensive lens isn't high in my list either), but I'd be surprised if you couldn't find a repair shop either in Thailand or back in the UK that would do it inexpensively, if the warranty isn't going to be valid anyway there's. A lot of UV light will kill any living spores in the mean time, if you have access to a UV source.

Hi Nelson, have you any idea haw much UV light is needed to kill off the fungas spores? I will have access to UV striplights in a couple of weeks when I make it to BKK.

I don't know what you consider as inexpensive, but I find what you say about having it cleaned reassuring and will look into that on my return to UK in a few weeks time. 'm in the middle of nowhere here and only in BKK for 3 days before setting off to India for the last 4 weeks of the trip. I hope that it won't worsen significantly in that time.

Thanks for your reply

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