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

Started Apr 28, 2015 | Discussions thread
SarahBK
OP SarahBK Regular Member • Posts: 184
Re: Beginning fungus, get your lens professionally cleaned before the damage gets too severe

brightcolours wrote:

Not all lens fungi look the same. Look at this one, it's the same as your lens is affected by:

http://www.exposureguide.com/lens-fungus-cleaning.htm

Yes the crystals resemble the shape of these ones more than any other picture I've come across - just not to the extent this lens seems to be affected. There still isn't anything like that fine hyphae mix on the peripheries as in this case, just isolate 'snowflake' shapes. Thank you for this picture, it is much more convincing of the possibility of it being fungus. The good thing is that exposure to sunlight stopped the growth since the day I got back last August because they have not increased or grown any further since.

Perhaps they are all the start of growth of individual spores, but stopped growing when I came back to Malta and battered the hell out of them when using it in Maltese sun.

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