Same as you do... in several drawers in the bedroom chests. Where you
store them it not the problem. If you have an air-conditioned house and
keep the humidity at 60% or less you will not get fungus no matter how
and where the lenses are stored. I have a couple of lenses which have
bad fungus which are simply stored in a plastic bag and put in with the
others. They've been like that for more that 20 years. The fungus has
not spread to the other lenses as some seem to think it will. The
difference is that my houses have been air-conditioned and pains taken
to make sure the humidity is held in check.
Fungus spores are everywhere but they only thrive where it's moist.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/9/2016 11:37 AM, JOHN DUGGAN wrote:
Hi all, I keep all my spare lenses in a large set of
drawers. recently i have thinned the herd to finance a 12-40 f2.8 pro
lens and a 40-150 f2.8 pro lens for m4/3. I sent them along with some
camera bodies to a well respected camera dealer who does commission
and cash sales. Much to my surprise he found 2 mint in box 50mm f 1.8
lenses had fungus, Tokina ATX 35/70 had fungus/hazy elements, and
Oly 35-107lens also had fungus/ hazy elements. I have no doubt about
the integrity of the dealer, the lenses had not been used for a
number of years and the storage conditions had not been up to
standard!!! A salutary lesson in how to turn money into landfill !! I
need to rethink my camera storage.The deal said that he had in the
past been sent a consignment of lenses - still sealed and boxed -
from Olympus. On opening the consignment a great number of the lenses
were found to be suffering from the dreaded fungus.How do other list
members store their equipment? Regards John Duggan, Wales, UK
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