I've just been cleaning up my gear after the latest dive trip, and have noticed a small scratch on my +8 diopter. Presumably it knocked against something during a dive. I took it into my local camera store today to see if they had any ideas, but the woman just looked at me blankly, shrugged, and walked away when I showed it to her. They don't specialise in underwater gear by any means, but I figured scratches on any lens would kind of be dealt with in a similar way, and surely people have come to them with scratched regular camera lenses before...At any rate, does anyone know if there's a way to remove a minor scratch to a macro lens? Or am I SOL and have to buy a new one?
Thanks in advance
WetPup
Hi WetPup
Can you actually see the the effects of the scratch on the final image? If not, I wouldn't worry about it.
But if you can see it, and the diopter is made of glass (which I guess it will be) then quite possibly replacement might be the only option..... I'm not sure you can polish out a significant scratch successfully from a lens or diopter.
Tim is right. There are multiple companies that can resurface glass optics but mostly they are serious $, probably more than you paid for the lens. Call Precision Camera for a quote (but don't be surprised if it is several hundred $)
Bill
You can rub out plastic. A number of threads on this board about that. Glass is probably tempered. Which can't be rubbed out.
*sigh* Yes, it's glass.
Will take it out for a test run and see what shows up on the images and whether or not it can be dealt with in Photoshop before forking out for a new one.
