That damn littl blue filter

[Bernard Delgado <delgado@nytimes.com>]

Well, my PXL didnt work very well.

It was very dim.

 I bought it cheap last Xmas from someone who thought it was a vastly

overrated item. I did take it apart to see if there was anything on the

lens. Seemed to be clean.

BUT after hearing about others having the same prob, I tried again. This

time I removed the lens housing & looked thru it.YUCK!

That little blue filter is only1/8 of an inch square, but it sure makes a

diffrnce!. Its very hard to clean.

In the end, I just simply removed it completely.

Its like a brand new camera!

In fact, the filter in the lenshood for bright light conditions cuts almost

as much light as the contamination did. So now I can use the camera

indoors!

I'm sure some of the graytone values will be different w/o the blue

filter(red objects will appear lighter)but it was definitely worth it for

my camera.