visualopsins
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 Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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visualopsins wrote:
Dust and condensing vapors are a problem with storing lenses on open shelves. If caps are left on, why does storage need light?
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Cameras: Sony ILCE-7RM2, Spotmatics II, F, and ESII, Nikon P4
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M42 Asahi Optical Co., Takumar 1:4 f=35mm, 1:2 f=58mm (Sonnar), 1:2.4 f=58mm (Heliar), 1:2.2 f=55mm (Gaussian), 1:2.8 f=105mm (Model I), 1:2.8/105 (Model II), 1:5.6/200, Tele-Takumar 1:5.6/200, 1:6.3/300, Macro-Takumar 1:4/50, Auto-Takumar 1:2.3 f=35, 1:1.8 f=55mm, 1:2.2 f=55mm, Super-TAKUMAR 1:3.5/28 (fat), 1:2/35 (Fat), 1:1.4/50 (8-element), Super-Multi-Coated Fisheye-TAKUMAR 1:4/17, Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR 1:4.5/20, 1:3.5/24, 1:3.5/28, 1:2/35, 1:3.5/35, 1:1.8/85, 1:1.9/85 1:2.8/105, 1:3.5/135, 1:2.5/135 (II), 1:4/150, 1:4/200, 1:4/300, 1:4.5/500, Super-Multi-Coated Macro-TAKUMAR 1:4/50, 1:4/100, Super-Multi-Coated Bellows-TAKUMAR 1:4/100, SMC TAKUMAR 1:1.4/50, 1:1.8/55
M42 Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.4/35
Contax Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 28-70mm F3.5-4.5
Pentax K-mount SMC PENTAX-A ZOOM 1:3.5 35~105mm, SMC PENTAX ZOOM 1:4 45~125mm
Nikon Micro-NIKKOR-P-C Auto 1:3.5 f=55mm, NIKKOR-P Auto 105mm f/2.5 Pre-AI (Sonnar), Micro-NIKKOR 105mm 1:4 AI, NIKKOR AI-S 35-135mm f/3,5-4,5
Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5 (51B), Tamron SP 17mm f/3.5 (151B), SP 500mm f/8 (55BB), SP 70-210mm f/3.5 (19AH)
Vivitar 100mm 1:2.8 MC 1:1 Macro Telephoto (Kiron)
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guardian
Joined: 18 Mar 2009
Posts: 1746
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guardian wrote:
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Hi all, I shall be moving house and space will be at a premium. Should I put up a shelves and kep my lenses and bodies (film and digital) on there? I don't wish to store in the dark and I can store above a radiator oraway from any heat source. I think the heat coming from the radiator could be a problem in drying out the lubricants in the lenses and camera bodies too much, so I think storing out of direct sunlight and away from direct heat is the best option.
Does anyone else agree or would you perhaps suggest another option I haven't thought of? |
I'm unable to tell you what to do. All I have to offer is a recitation of how I myself store lenses:
In the dark, in double sealed plastic ziploc bags (e.g., freezer bags) containing at most a few lenses, if they are small, but most often one lens per bag.
Each plastic bag containing also an individual, and substantial, portion of silica gel dessicant. I make my own dessicant sacks and they are four to five times the size of ones often seen packed in with commercial shipments.
Storage is at as low a temperature as I can muster. In winter that temperature is very close to freezing. In summer it seldom advances above 65 degrees F.
Problems so far are few, but it remains to be seen how this protocol will work over the fullness of time.
Incidentally, and FWIW, I also store all lenses with apertures fully closed down. |
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