Scratches on Century Fisheye

[Funkycoldg]

A Friend of mine recently bought a Century Optics Fisheye off someone and it has some noticable scrathces on it!! Soo anyways I was wondering if something like this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31416&item=5506405098&rd=1
would help alittle..I dont think he is too worried about the lens since he got it real cheap. Any help would be greatly appriciated!

Thanks in advance,
JJ5

 

[Funkycoldg]

Re: Scratches on Century Fisheye

Anybody got any kind of input?

Thanks
JJ5

 

[Barry_Green]

Re: Scratches on Century Fisheye

Century will replace the front element for you. It'll cost some bucks, but a lot less than buying a new lens, so you might call them and ask about it.

 

[Barry_S]

Re: Scratches on Century Fisheye

That stuff on ebay is a polymer--it's designed for plastic lenses. Since glass and plastic have different refractive indexes, using it to repair your fisheye is not a good idea. Scratching a fisheye is *bad* because of the tremendous depth of field. Call Century.