Fungus and a Happy Ending

[Andysnap]

I just had a bit of luck, well two bits actually.

I was trolling through the bay of E last week and I spotted an Ensign 820 with about 40 mins to go and no bids. BIN price was £50 but there was also a best offer option so I popped in a cheeky £30 offer and promptly forgot all about it. Anyway a couple of days later I had a message from the seller accepting my offer, it was her grandad's camera and was in the loft with a lot of other stuff that they were clearing out, she had no idea about it or even if it worked but it looked in excellent condition so I said yes.
So today I picked it up and it is cosmetically in fantastic condition, even the case is spotless. There are a couple of problems though, the red window is missing, no worries there, easily replaced, but there was a lot of fungus...Bad news so I searched through f&c and spotted a thread about shifting the stuff with lots of different methods but I was concerned about taking the lens off to attempt a clean. I removed the rear element easily enough and there was the fungus, none on the front elements at all, so I used a little diluted stop, an idea courtesy of our very own Rob Hooley and voila, the lens is perfect.

So basically I'm just a happy bunny .

Cheers

Andy

 

[trevorbray]

I just had a bit of luck, well two bits actually.

I was trolling through the bay of E last week and I spotted an Ensign 820 with about 40 mins to go and no bids. BIN price was £50 but there was also a best offer option so I popped in a cheeky £30 offer and promptly forgot all about it. Anyway a couple of days later I had a message from the seller accepting my offer, it was her grandad's camera and was in the loft with a lot of other stuff that they were clearing out, she had no idea about it or even if it worked but it looked in excellent condition so I said yes.
So today I picked it up and it is cosmetically in fantastic condition, even the case is spotless. There are a couple of problems though, the red window is missing, no worries there, easily replaced, but there was a lot of fungus...Bad news so I searched through f&c and spotted a thread about shifting the stuff with lots of different methods but I was concerned about taking the lens off to attempt a clean. I removed the rear element easily enough and there was the fungus, none on the front elements at all, so I used a little diluted stop, an idea courtesy of our very own Rob Hooley and voila, the lens is perfect.

So basically I'm just a happy bunny .

Cheers

Andy

WoOt !! Happy Bunny and a Camera Engineer. What's not to love..

 

[robhooley167]

That's my 4 years of university education put to good use then!

Glad it all worked out Andy.

 

[RaglanSurf]

That's my 4 years of university education put to good use then!

Glad it all worked out Andy.

Imagine how clever you're going to be once you've finished all that skoolin'