julianocz Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Hello everyone. Recently I purchased a lens on eBay. The person (camera shop) who sold the lens described it as without any fungus or haze. Once it arrived I noticed something which looks to me but I am not a specialist like a part of inner lens (just below the first element) has been scratched on the edge which seems unrealistic. It is inside the lens not on top of the glass. It looks like it is where the second glass element is touching the inner part (metal part) of the lens just at the rim. Like if you had a piece of glass and scratched it just at the rim. So now am thinking what this may be. Unfortunately I can't check now if the issue has any impact on the photos as I sold my camera a week ago and I am moving to a different system. I can return the lens and I have few more days to test it out but I want your professional opinion what this may be.As you will notice on my horrible photos that the issue has some sort of a colour gradient which looks like a rainbow, maybe it is the coating? The lens is Zeiss 28mm f2 and I don't really want to return it as I got a pretty good price but maybe I should?Please help.Photos:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8oyg1TMd8kDS1U3X3piV0lpM0U/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8oyg1TMd8kDQnVGa1JQSWhsUmc/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8oyg1TMd8kDVW5ReVR6SXJsX0E/view?usp=sharing Found a different example of the same lens. Mine problem looks similar but is deeper in the lens. Here is a photo I found:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8oyg1TMd8kDeXUzWTRwWXVGLUU/view?usp=sharing Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy lee Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I really would not worry about this at all its right at the edge of the lens and not used in forming an imageIts a manufacturing mark where the lens glass in bonded to the metal rimit does not look like fungus as that looks like thin spider like veins your lens is fine and will take great images Cinegain 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ebrahim Saadawi Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Yes these won't affect the image quality don't worry. The glass looks great. Keep it and if you're really annoyed by the look of it you can always get it cleaned by a pro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeys Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Can't tell - you need to shoot with it. By right there won't be any issues, but if an element has come loose and is misaligned, you can't tell by eyeballing the exterior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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