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Cleaning the rear element of a lens
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I just bought a used tamron 17-50 off craigslist for 300 bucks.
I knocked the seller down to 300 because it had some dust on the front and rear elements off the lens.
I just removed the plastic part and then the 4 screws on the front element to clean it.
I then removed the back element 4 screws and can not find how to lift up the rear element to clean it.
Anyone know how to clean the rear element? Maybe there's some youtube videos?? I cant seem to find any...
thanks
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taking lenses apart is really sketchy...
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yeah, but with this lens, i think a camera shop would ask as much as it cost to fix it
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Is the dust really in the way? I'd test out the lens and if its a problem then try to clean it.
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Are you shooting photo or video? If you're doing photo you'll be able to take out the dust in post, if you can even notice it. How significant is it?
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Doing 99% video.
And the dust is pretty damn bad. It shows up in video
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even when it's very open'd or closed.
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No one on here has ever taken apart their lenses?
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started to once with an old prime, about 8 screws in i realized i was going to do damage to it if it went any farther and stopped.
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same, but my focus and aperture got messed up. good thing i had two of them. yay craigslist. also got the orange name back? congrats
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Congrats on the orange name again. Definitley deserve it.
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I would never do that myself
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