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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isoterica" data-source="post: 92455" data-attributes="member: 1669">I have read several info sites this weekend Paul and since the lenses are like 1940's there is probably something living in them all by now, just not growing and multiplying. In this particular case I bought a lens from ebay, it was stated the glass is clean etc [it has not arrived yet but is the last to compliment my father's old Minolta rangefinder] however the camera it was attached to had fungus. I did not see seller having the camera in his sales, just the lens and a camera case. But having read what I did about all lenses having some kind of spore thing going on over time ..I figured as long as the glass was still clean I could do damage control. I was just wondering if a strong [these uv lights cure ink on high speed printing presses in a flash] lamp exposure [albeit a very brief one so that the lens doesn't melt] would do the trick. Or maybe I don't even need to worry over it at all? There is supposedly no glass tracking/evidence of mold. I do recall Brian mentioning a sun bath on his lenses. Not sure if it heats up the spores though Sue, would be great it if did. I'd like to know at the very least that I didn't purchase a virulent bomb that is going to make all my other stuff sick via camera contact. While Leica still repairs their cameras and there are a lot of other repairmen for them, there just really aren't repairs for Minolta screw mount leica-likes. Reason being, if something gets broke in cleaning, they have no spare parts. I had several repair shops turn me away when I needed my shutter curtains on the camera replaced due to that -sigh-. I just want to enjoy my dad's camera while there is still film to use in it.</blockquote>

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