Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I dunno about you, but if it's a lens I really like and it has a fault,
I have it serviced professionally. I'm a photographer, not a camera
repair technician.
This reminds me of something I'd rather forget. In the old Praktika days,
had an aftermarket (cheap)screw mount zoom lens that I decided I needed
to take apart for some reason. Dust inside or something. I went to work
with a screwdriver, disassembled cleand and reassembled the lens and
found that I couldn't see a damn thing with it. It wouldn't focus at
all. After fiddling around I realized that I had put the focusing stuff
together wrong and that I had no idea how they were supposed to go
together. I disassembled it again and fooled around testing and
retesting to try to get the focusing mechanism close to right. I finally
got it so I could see something in the viewfinder then I looked through
the lens and saw a huge fingerprint on one of the interior elements.
That was the end of my lens repair career right there.
Tom (Repairs-R-Us) Reese
