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Got this lens back from Eric a couple weeks ago - he was able to clean all the
elements except an internal assembly that couldn't be removed and taken apart.
It looks about 80% better than it did when I shine a flashlight through it.
Was able to take some more test shots today, and sharpness/contrast seem
pretty close to like-new, although I think I see some more flare than before the
accident, but only in flare-prone situations. Still much better than before Eric
did his thing. (Since he wasn't able to clean
all the elements, he didn't charge
me anything, but I think I'm going to send him $ for the effort anyway.)
All of these are at 200mm, cropped between I'd say 25% and 50%, ISO 640
unless otherwise noted:
f/2.8
f/4
f/2.8 ISO 500
f/3.5 kid's getting yelled at, taken from level above
f/3.5
f/3.5
f/3.5 1/1000s this thing was really moving