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Chipped unitron lense..is it ruined?

Started by akman1955, 01/10/2008 04:49AM
Posted 01/10/2008 04:49AM Opening Post
sad Hi, the inner lense on my 60mm unitron has few chip's about the width of the spacer's around outer edge. sad Is this going too affect performance and is it ruined? Thanks, John
Posted 01/10/2008 01:08PM #1
I agree it will have little or no visible effect.
You can either paint the chips black, or fashion
a ring to stop the aperture down by 2 or 3mm.
For example, you could carefully make a ring
from black construction paper, and mount it in
the lens cell behind the glass elements.