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Posted by William Walsh (Member # 1261) on November 27, 2008, 05:00 PM:

Greetings,

After dinner and a Tryptophan induced nap I decided to fire up the Bolex 18-5 I took delivery on yesterday. I quickly set it up and threaded a recent vintage home movie purchase. The projector sits behind me to my left, looking back at the end of the movie and into a bare white light I noticed that the front optic of the lens seemed to be cloudy. I removed the lens and viewed it through a lamp bulb but did not notice any clouding. I cleaned the elements I had access to and put the lens back into the projector. I turned on the projector to bulb without a movie and again the front optic seemed cloudy / smeered. Is this normal or is the lens cloudy but only noticable under strong light and not visible to the naked eye. The home movie I was viewing did not have that crisp focus but then again with amateur home movies you never know what your going to get…….

Happy Turkey Day,

Bill

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on November 28, 2008, 01:34 PM:

Bill,

Here are two threads where we discussed Lens Bloom.

Lens Bloom
Lens Bloom 2

Doug

Posted by William Walsh (Member # 1261) on November 29, 2008, 06:08 PM:

Thanks Doug..

Bill

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