Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/09

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Subject: Re: Fungus
From: Amilcar de Oliveira <amilcar@domain.com.br>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 13:42:20 +0100

Clicio Barroso wrote:
> 
> Hi All
> 
> This will sound pretty stupid, but considering I live in hot, humid
> Brazil, is there a *sure* way to avoid fungus in my (expensive) lenses?
> All my experiences seem to fail (been trying many different methods for
> the past 20 years...)
> Cheers, Clicio
> 
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Clicio,
Smell  your  camera bags often. If they get fungus, they will
recontaminate  your lenses. Camera bags are far more difficult to clean
than lenses and the only way out is throwing them away.

Amilcar