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I've shipped off several of my old manual lenses to Focal Point Inc in Colorado to have fungus damage removed. My 55mm micro was one of the more seriously afflicted ones , and I sent it out this summer to be cleaned along with my 16-85mm nikkor that needed repairing after hitting the sidewalk with a thud (that one though was through no fault of my own). After capturing the scene in the previous shot I looked at the picture info as I was getting ready to slip my camera back in my bag, and noticed that the last group of shots taken with my 17-70mm zoom was at about 55mm. Well perfect I thought, here's an opportunity to see if my newly cleaned 55mm micro is back up to par with the other lenses in my arsenal, and I doubled back around and reached in the side pocket of my tripod bag to pull out my diminutive 20 year old closeup lens. The ability to slide the tiny once razor sharp macro optic into any small free space in one of my bags was a thing I sorely missed these last 3 years as all my other closeup lens options were all so big that finding a free spot to include them is quite often a big challenge if not an impossibility on many a trip. Now after 3 days of sitting in my bags unused and untouched, its' time to step up to the plate had come at last. So did Focal Point Inc rescue another of my old lenses from the scrap heap? Yep looks like it!
dsc_9369 fall comes to Clove lakes [55mm micro test]
