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04/14/2004 01:37:24 AM · #1 |
| My dad and I, while out taking aerial digital photography pictures, scratched his new fish eye lens on some rocks. The largest is about the size of a pepper flake, and then a few little specks around it, as well. Can this type of lens be taken somewhere to be kind of.. sanded out? (Not sanded but.. I don't really know the word I'm looking for. You get the idea.) Or is it, as my dad would say, hosed? |
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04/14/2004 02:16:34 AM · #2 |
Not sure about possible "fixes", but I am curious to how much the scratches actually degrade image quality.
Small marks on the front element with a "normal" length lens aren't usually a problem. You will never see them. But since this is fisheye. I'm not sure what to expect. Chances are, though, the lens will still work just fine, with little or no noticeable degradation in image quality. |
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04/14/2004 02:29:42 AM · #3 |
Sorry Lindsay, but the lens is probably hosed. I got a tiny chip on the lens of my old Kodak DC-120 and it caused a small blur spot on almost every photo. That's why it's a good idea to keep a filter, skylight, UV, or plain glass, on a lens at all times. It's much cheaper to replace a filter than a lens. If the scratch is light enough it may be possible to polish it out, but doing that will probably cause at least some amount of distortion. If the scratch is deep enough to feel with your fingernail than it probably can't be polished out without leaving the lens totally useless.
--Mick
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04/14/2004 02:31:52 AM · #4 |
| We haven't taken any shots since we scratched it... but looking through the lens just with our eyes, there are black specks where the scratches are on the lens. They could be camouflaged very well in pictures, I think.. or edited out.. if it even makes much of a difference. I guess we'll have to take some shots to check out how bad it is. |
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04/14/2004 02:35:51 AM · #5 |
Mick, thanks so much for the information. (And yes, polishing it out was the term I was looking for!) I'll have to mention to my dad about the filters.. I don't know that he'd ever thought about that before. Also, we weren't being very smart about handling it.. considering it was dangling from a kite. He should have put the lens on before playing with our camera rig but he didn't think about it. The kite dipped and the rig and camera set down pretty hard on some rocks. It's sad, because we're getting pretty good with it, making 360 degree photos.
Thanks again, it's always good to get more information, even if it's not the response we're hoping for! |
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04/14/2004 03:06:38 AM · #6 |
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