The Original Dust Mite Story
Part of Toomas Tamm's photo pages
From eos-owner@avocado.pc.helsinki.fi Thu Mar 21 17:52:09 1996
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:51:13 -0800
From: Adam Lane
To: eos@avocado.pc.helsinki.fi
Subject: A dust mite!?!
This isn't really an EOS issue, but it happened inside of an EOS lens.
Soon after I purchased a 200mm f/2.8 lens last year, it got a really large
white spec on one of the optical elements inside. This spec was quite a bit
larger than any other piece of fluff in any other lens I own. It was quite
disturbing but did not affect the beautiful pictures that this lens took.
Last week, I observed to my horror a dust mite crawling on this very
same optical surface.
It walked directly towards the spec, ate it, then walked out of site.
I watched it happen in amazement. The lens is pretty clean now except
for a single fiber which came from the internal baffle.
The little mite has not reappeared since and i've disinfected quite a
bit of stuff becasue of my new discovery about dust mites...i've never
ever seen one before this...you sure can see anything when it's inside
of a lens!
I can only hope it did not lay eggs inside of my lens.
I hope I can train these suckers so that I can sell my new internal
lens cleaning technology.
Sick.
A picture of a dust mite, taken by Adam, is also available.
Last modified: 11 November 1996
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