Place the lens, MOUNT FACING up, in a dark box with a light hanging over it. Reason: bugs crawl upward, and toward light.
i learned this when i had a wolf spider go into my EAR as a boy. My mom wisely had me put my head on the table, with the "infested" ear up. Wouldnt you know it, the spider crawled up and out toward the light!!!
ps: ps as an alternative, you could put a live gecko in your lens to eat the vermin lolo
Have you shot in a library recently? Could be book-worms lolo
All seriousness aside, go talk to an exterminator. They will probably be amused and identify the vermin and use their expertise to solve this unique problem.
I do know one thing that will kill bugs: ether put some on a cotton ball (not touching the lens) in a sealed plastic bag like a zipper-lock bag. The fumes will send the worms for a good long nap into never-never land!
I still prefer to lure them out with lens mount up on body and lens, so that they crawl out!
You don't want them dying inside the equipment, because you'll have to have them cleaned out. I would do as pchaplo said and ask an exterminator about how to do the luring.
I don't think all bugs do as Moths do, so the light thing probably won't work.
pchaplo wrote:
Place the lens, MOUNT FACING up, in a dark box with a light hanging over it. Reason: bugs crawl upward, and toward light.
i learned this when i had a wolf spider go into my EAR as a boy. My mom wisely had me put my head on the table, with the "infested" ear up. Wouldnt you know it, the spider crawled up and out toward the light!!!
So you had this in your ear? And I thought tiny insects in my lenses were bad!
carlsbadbum wrote:
This is a photo forum so please post photos of bugs in glass.
Sorry, that's quite impossible. Not even a macro lens can catch the size of these things. They're smaller than dust itself. But I'll try to catch one if i see it come out!
Make sure you clean out your bag those little critters infested you fro some place and moved onto more than one lens. They are probably still in your cam bag.
I knew Canon was having some problems with bugs, but I never imagined they were live bugs!
From what little I can glean from those pics, the bugs appear to be some sort of mite. And they seem to be on the outside of the lenses, which should present fewer problems for eliminating them.
Do not use any kind of fumigant! This will definitely leave residues on the glass, and may attack the plastics and lens coatings!
I'd try the freezer route, then carefully blow everything off to get rid of the critters. Mites can be tough, and likely the freezing won't kill them, but it may slow them down enough to blow them off.
Better yet, try sealing the gear in plastic bags and then purge the bags with dry Argon, Helium or Nitrogen. A local welding shop will have these gases. Welding-grade Argon, Helium, and Nitrogen are absolutely non-reactive below a couple thousand degrees and leave no residues. Since the gases displace all the O2 in the bags, the critters should not survive for long. I'd leave the gear sealed in the gas-purged bags for several days in a warm place to be sure the buggers suffocate.
But, what the heck are they doing there in the first place?
runamuck wrote:
Be caareful with ether--if you can get it. It's very highly explosive/flammable. You want to kill the bugs, not the lenses.
Aside from being explosive, Ether is a very effective solvent for plastics--possibly including lens coatings.
Stick with the noble gases listed above. They're nontoxic, non-reactive, and won't damage anything. They'll just displace the oxygen and smother the bugs.
I bought a new big screen TV once. Plugged it in and suddenly there was a huge spider climbing around on the inside, all over the screen. took about a week and he eventually disappeared.
