Ingemar,
I have a couple of lenses I purchased for a "bargin" price that have a few
blemishes. One in particular has two small marks on the rear element. The
marks are clearly visible on inspection of the lens but do not affect the
photos any that I can tell, and I've looked for it. Another has major
cosmetic blemishes externally. Sometimes it bothers me this lens is kinda
ugly looking, until the photos come back. Terrific little piece of glass
:). So I accept it and keep shooting. The key difference however is, in
both cases, the seller told me about these marks in advance. I accepted it.
There was no surprise. Given your circumstances, I would return the lens
without hesitation. It was apparently represented as more than what it is.
Re: multiple sends - laugh it off. It happens to everyone, many times for
reasons unknown to any humans, but only to mail servers themselves. No
apology needed.
John P
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Ingemar Uvhagen <ingemar.uvhagen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wondered:
To: OM <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, August 22, 1998 5:39 AM
Subject: [OM] Received the 100/2.8
>Friends,
>
>I have received the Zuiko 100/2.8 but I am not too jolly about it. Now,
>the lens looks great outside, including the front and rear glass. The
>diaphragm are clean and it opens and closes easily without any problem.
>What bothers me is that the glass just behind the front glass have some
>dust on it. No one of my other lenses has this, so I am not sure how
>this would effect a photo (slide, as any particle will be shown much
>more on slides than on prints).
>I am fussy about lenses so maybe you all think I am overreacting, on the
>other hand it was cheap so I should have guessed...
>
>Anyway, I wonder if any of you have any suggestion on what I should do.
>At the moment I am thinking of sending it back and buy another one,
>which will very likely be more expensive but probably much better. I
>don't think I will keep it anyhow, and sending it to service will cost
>about the same as the lens cost is out of the question.
>
>Finally I would like to take the opportunity to apology for my many
>messages on the Super Telephoto thread. The server was down so I thought
>no messages got through, because of that I tried to send later with the
>same results. Obviously some got through anyway...
>Sorry. :-|
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