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ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« on: October 18, 2013, 11:06:25 AM »
Other day, lens on the ZIESS conquest went black.  Couldn't see through it. It was cold humid morning where optics would be prone to fogging.

This was like a coating of soot, I had to almost scrub the gunk off so I could see through it.  Anyone got a clue to what happened?

I wonder if the lens coating somehow had a reaction and went black  :dunno:


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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2013, 11:39:01 AM »
.....you dropped your cigarette ash on it while hiking in, and with moisture, it froze during your walk :dunno:

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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2013, 11:40:14 AM »
actually it looked more like I held it in the exhaust of one of those rednecks dodge trucks that blow black soot out the exhaust



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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2013, 11:51:13 AM »
 :chuckle:  I was just joking, lol

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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2013, 12:08:31 PM »
so messing with it, seems to be the backside of the lens going black when the temperature changes rapidly.

got to be a coating

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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2013, 12:14:26 PM »
Bad timing...........

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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2013, 12:16:39 PM »
Bad timing...........

you just buy one?

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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2013, 12:52:51 PM »
I have same scope and never had that problem  :dunno:
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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2013, 01:15:28 PM »
hasn't done it to me since that last time


was weird, like a coating had a chemical reaction to something and went black like rubbery soot. 

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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2014, 06:28:29 AM »
Nitrogen leaking ?
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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2014, 03:36:04 PM »
it probably fogged a lens. i had a swaro do that. it only did it once...but they repurged it for me.

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Re: ZIESS conquest - black crap on the lens
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2014, 09:09:46 AM »
Send it in. They'll fix it or replace it. No need to mess around.
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