On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:07:00 -0000, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Mar 8, 2006, at 12:54 PM, John Forbes wrote:
There are also ancient lenses on which the aperture ring has packed up
- like my A 1:1.7 50mm. If it had spent its life mounted on a modern
DSLR it would still be fine. ...
On that subject, I had an A50/1.7 that the aperture ring jammed. My
friendly camera tech took it apart and found that the spring-finger that
slides into notches at the back of the lens to give you the click stops
was held in place with two little plastic pillars, and one of them had
broken so jamming the ring. He cleaned it out, drilled a little hole,
and cemented a screwed in pillar to hold the spring finger. I had three
of those lenses, and after he was done I couldn't tell which was which
anymore. Not bad for a $20 repair.
That's exactly what happened to mine. Cost-cutting you see. :-)
Just wish I could find somebody to repair it for $20.00.
John
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