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[Paul Ron]

Now if the kid married the tarter control's daughter, you can buy yourself a new camera.  
 
Did you swap the viwer for the taker?
 
Did you check out KEH?

[Paul Ron]

OH I forget, did you check hte focusing film plane to viewer?

[Natew]

Well, I took a couple of shots, but I've not had them developed yet.  We'll see how the results came out when I can afford to send them out for it. (I had 80mm and 180mm and got nice (?) shots of the multi-color fall swamp.)
 
I didn't end

[Natew]

Sorry, missed something: this is the location I shot the test shots at.  Looking forward to the resulting images! (this shot with a Nikon D80 set to about as saturated as I can get; I hope it's about what I get from Velvia 50.)

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[Paul Ron]

You focus using a well lit target, then with a GG on the film plane focus using a loupe for max sharpness. If the view screen doesn't agree, the viewer is focused to match the film plane.  
 
*I don't remeber if the lens itself can be focused

[Epatsellis]

Out of curiosity, have you tried cold cream rubbed by hand. Odd as it seems, it's saved my butt on some lenses that had the same type of fogging.

[Paul Ron]

I've heard about the cold cream but never tried it myself. I'll bet the lenses are baby butt soft n smooth?

[David_nebenzahl]

I used cold cream a couple times on old (uncoated) lenses. It seemed to clean them, but then I read that you really shouldn't use this stuff on lenses, so I stopped doing it. It sounds like a fairly dodgy bit of DIY camera-repair mythology.

[Epatsellis]

perhaps, of course the proper way to repair the lens is to replace the elements. I've used other dodgy sounding approaches as well:
 
Rick Oleson's wicking light oil into the edge of a separated lens cell, full immersion soaks of (metal blade

[David_nebenzahl]

None of those other things that you described sound iffy to me, and I take any advice from Rick Oleson very seriously. But the cold cream thing is, to me, fairly worthless urban legend.