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Believing in the information by Hankyu Railway Co., I visited "Zuihou-in" park today with confidence, but the condition was inferior to that of "Kyuanji" at Ikeda Tada visited the other day. Consequently, miss-combustion of my mind obliged myself to extend for another place, it was "Zuihouji-park" situated at Arima, just 10 km Northern portion from Ashiya into Mt. Rokko. 2nd visited place was good enough to satisfy my willingness to shoot. A milk-stand deep inside of the park will close from tomorrow till next Spring because of cold weather, so said the sellers to me. 1 more week will invite chilly temperature here.

Probably the lightest lens is prepared by DIY arrangement utilizing Canon Demi HS 30 mm/17 lens with interplantation, weighs only 86 gr.. Half size imaging circle obliges to crop down to SPS-C format, but it's permissive for my usual use as a standard focal length lens. Iris control is available by adjusting a lever rotating and extraordinary 20 cm close-up capability is an indispensable gospel at all even with an original helicoid parts diversion. Cute and adorable appearance of this modified lens has an enough potential to surprise and frighten even a SONY engineer.
6 elements and 4 groups lens design construction has enough advanced concept even on Digital Imaging Sensor, no argument is acceptable to show it's resolution power and sharpness with delicacy.
Small & Cute figure do not mean less capability even on a recent designed sophisticated Digital equipment.

It looked transparent to use without cleaning in the posterior element of Zoom-HEXANON AR 35~70/3.5 2nd generation at the beginning, but careful investigation found out small colony of hatred mold inside. Without any hesitation to disassemble thoroughly, all the rear groupe was removed and cleaned including applying edge black coating for the most posterior glass circle. With all this kind of thorough measures, I will have some clean & transparent pics by this zoom lens, anyway adorable one.
My lenses are all camouflaged with any pet bottle decoration, so to speak Urban town camouflage. By applying this kind of funny appearance on the barrel, I can reduce the high presence of Tele-photo lens in front of the general public leading to soothing facial expressions of the others. This is why I apply camouflage on the camera lenses with funny & toy-like coloring, but all are reversible.

Without discipline, bid I another standard zoom lens in Yahoo Auction and the fact that no other competitor existed led me to obtain additional one at 1 yen, meaning getting the item for sipping fee only. Store in Yahoo Auction often sells some item at 1 yen for the sake of dealing strategy and some bidder might catch a chance if no other applicant exits. The harvest this time is Konica Zoom-HEXANON AR 35~70mm F3.5 with no mechanical damage, no trace of wear and no other defect except mold breeding inside.
It is true that a Zoom lens is convenient to be carried with a photographer because of adjustable shooting angle, no need to endure the weight of several fixed focus length lenses. On the other hand, the weight of zoom lens can not be ignore some time. The lighter the lens weight is, the more opportunity to be brought out as a matter of fact. Consequently, zoom lens like this time often thrown away unused just damaged by mould attack inside. Though such a defect could be repaired by cleaning as before, specific tools, technology and know-how are required to do that. Even a layman can be an expert if several experiences should overcome.
This hobby work is exactly fit with me, a retired engineer who has enough free time. The least payment with the greatest contentment is my life style. Clogged mould colony were on the glass surfaces shown in the figure. Piston & Cylinder like movement of zooming module invites many mold spores in action and the same in iris portion.
As an experimental attempt, I ordered 62 mm metal lens hood in the morning today and I got it this evening without shipping fee, how come? Incredibly quick commercial distribution organization should be established already these days!
Maintained, cleaned and finished one squeezed to be used ASAP, so went I for shooting with this new one today to an old farmer's house.
Performance of this zoom lens is the second to none!

Immediately after obtaining, RMC Tokina 35-70mm/3.5 Zoom lens was put into operation on SONY Alpha 9 for the evening scenery shooting at Dojima Nakanoshima Osaka yesterday. Thanks to some desperate effort done for cleaning and maintenance by myself, the potential and capability were exerted enough for the requirement on the various sceneries. Clean and transparent pics were obtained as a matter of fact with smooth and comfortable performance in every shooting, no complaint at all.