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<blockquote data-quote="Lee" data-source="post: 209774" data-attributes="member: 8142">Re: Nikkor 55-300 vs 7--300Hi Claudia I didn't mean it to take so long for me to get back here with a review.&nbsp; The lens arrived and I am very pleased with it. Thanks to your heads up I probably scrutinized it a lot more carefully than I would have had you not posted about your issues. I decided to keep mine.&nbsp; The outside of the lens was immaculately clean and dust free. I actually purchased and ex display model from a store and expected the outside to be a little 'dirtier' than usual but they were obviously truthful when they said that it had been in a glass cabinet and only taken out for short periods. I presume they cleaned it very well after all my messages too lolThere appear to be two tiny dust specs in the lens elements. I am still not sure if it is my eyes playing tricks in the light (you can only seem to see them in natural daylight, not in artificial light).&nbsp; I have taken photos of a white wall, a white soft box, plain colored screens and cannot detect any sign of the specs on the images so I have decided to keep it.&nbsp; What did you end up deciding with yours?&nbsp; Were they willing to have it cleaned for you, and is it even possible to have dust cleared from the elements?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lee, post: 209774, member: 8142"] [b]Re: Nikkor 55-300 vs 7--300[/b] Hi Claudia I didn't mean it to take so long for me to get back here with a review. The lens arrived and I am very pleased with it. Thanks to your heads up I probably scrutinized it a lot more carefully than I would have had you not posted about your issues. I decided to keep mine. The outside of the lens was immaculately clean and dust free. I actually purchased and ex display model from a store and expected the outside to be a little 'dirtier' than usual but they were obviously truthful when they said that it had been in a glass cabinet and only taken out for short periods. I presume they cleaned it very well after all my messages too lol There appear to be two tiny dust specs in the lens elements. I am still not sure if it is my eyes playing tricks in the light (you can only seem to see them in natural daylight, not in artificial light). I have taken photos of a white wall, a white soft box, plain colored screens and cannot detect any sign of the specs on the images so I have decided to keep it. What did you end up deciding with yours? Were they willing to have it cleaned for you, and is it even possible to have dust cleared from the elements? [/QUOTE]

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