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'Crystals' inside my Canon EF 100mm Macro USM Lens

Started Apr 28, 2015 | Discussions thread
SarahBK
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Re: 'Crystals' inside my Canon EF 100mm Macro USM Lens

Landscapeforfun wrote:

SarahBK wrote:

Landscapeforfun wrote:

Looks like a classic case of fungus to me. Not sure if the lens is salvageable or not.
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-Adam
https://www.flickr.com/photos/90719248@N04/

Did you full-view the picture?
I'd have imagined the hyphae would have been so much thinner, and being a living organism it would grow over a long period of time.. and wouldn't be so isolate..

I don't see a whole lot of other options for what it could be. I'm sure if you put it in a dark damp place it will spread. Your best bet is to have it repaired ASAP before it gets any worse or etches the glass.

Yeah - it's the limited options which point towards it, but even now looking at pictures of lens fungus they look nothing like them.

It's been in a dark place since the incident (August 2014) and they haven't changed in any way though.

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