Jman13 wrote:
I want to kill any further growth, and I don\'t want it to etch the glass if it hasn\'t yet. Any suggestions? Is there a way to kill the fungus without disassembly? Suggestions?
This is just a guess, but-
Put the lens in a sealed chamber, along with an open container of ammonia.
Maybe the strong ammonia fumes would be enough to penetrate the lens & kill the fungus. I really don\'t know.
I\'d try this with the cheapest lens you have first, in case the ammonia fumes leave some kind of deposit on the glass.
Another, total desperation move, might be to submerse the front of the lens in pure alchohol. That should kill the nasties and vaporize off, but once again I\'d test on something cheap.
A third, semi-ridiculous idea would be to microwave it. You\'d get a bunch of sparks, but both you & the microwave would probably survive. The fungus would most certainly NOT survive.
Oct 16, 2008 at 02:08 PM
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