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fungus in lens canon SL2 camera 28-105 lens

Started Feb 23, 2021 | Discussions thread
benjilafouine Veteran Member • Posts: 3,875
Re: fungus in lens canon SL2 camera 28-105 lens

Is this the very old 28-105 lens from Canon? This is a 30 years old lens! An inexpensive lens but I still have mine and it worked great. It was really my first lens aside from the kit lens. And I bought it on eBay in 2005. There were several versions of it, read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_28-105mm_lens. The version 2 was probably the greatest of the three versions. It was a fast lens at the time and when I use mine, it is with a bit of nostalgia. Version 3, made in Taiwan (instead of Japan) was not as great.

Seems like your lens has seen some humidity. They now sell on eBay for about $100 USD.

Basically, it is not worth much but I advise against opening it by yourself. It needs a very dust free environment and despite being old, this is a delicate piece of technology.

I advise letting go of it (meaning send it to recycling) but maybe Canon would be happy to clean it for you but with some copies on sale at a low price on eBay, if you decide to fix it by yourself, you will not lose much. However, if there is humidity all inside, it is probably scrap.

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