i'm meeting a seller tomorrow for a lens, he said that there are some "light spots" underneath the lens surface. that's all he described it as. he told me that he kept the lens in a dry cabinet all along.
so i suspect that they might be fungi, but the fact that he kept the lens in a dry cabinet all along might mean something else? so i'm suspecting now that it might just be dust under the lens surface.
but being a complete noob and amateur to lenses, (just making my switch from consumer digicam to film slr) i have completely no idea how to tell the difference between these two.
i've seen some pictures online of fungi and they all seem to start growing from the edges of the lens. do they grow out from the middle? and how do spores look like? just white, bright dots?
please enlighten! better still, if got pictures then lagi best.
;p
so i suspect that they might be fungi, but the fact that he kept the lens in a dry cabinet all along might mean something else? so i'm suspecting now that it might just be dust under the lens surface.
but being a complete noob and amateur to lenses, (just making my switch from consumer digicam to film slr) i have completely no idea how to tell the difference between these two.
i've seen some pictures online of fungi and they all seem to start growing from the edges of the lens. do they grow out from the middle? and how do spores look like? just white, bright dots?
please enlighten! better still, if got pictures then lagi best.
;p