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RE: [OM] dropped lens: advice wanted

Subject: RE: [OM] dropped lens: advice wanted
From: lclark@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 12:47:45 -0500
In <5AD7782D2FB2D11183CE0000F8023ACD1622CB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on
11/02/98 at 10:56 PM,
   Wayne Harridge <Wayne.Harridge@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

>> 
>       I wouldn't consider myself an expert, but going by prices in
>Australia, you could easily pick up an excellent 50mm f1.8 for the cost
>of any sort of repair to a lens.  From the damage you have described
>you could probably replace the f1.4 used cheaper than repairing it.

>       ...Wayne

...and, just so you don't think of your lens as a total loss: it could
serve as an excellent loupe for examining slides. Others on the list
have recommended using "surplus" 50 mm, f/1.8 lenses for this purpose...


les clark 
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