Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Congratulations on the surgery! I have the Canon 50mm 1.4 lens, and get agitated by the infinity lock. Have you removed the lock on your Serenar? Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 11/3/2014 4:16 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote: > So ? my 50mm Canon Serenar f1.8 wouldn?t focus to infinity, it hit a hard > stop about 4mm away. Advice on the LUG was divided 50/50 between ?buy a > real lens you dope? and ?send it to sherry? ? I opted for solution c) and > bought a spanner wrench and opened the lens like a coconut and found this: > > http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2014/lenses.jpg > > a small screw had come loose sometime in the past 50 years got had fallen > inside the track that the focus ring moves through. I popped it out with a > toothpick and replaced it where it had fallen from and it works fine now. > whole operation (minus waiting for the spanner wrench to arrive) was about > five minutes. > > And now for my next trick, adding haze to a 35mm f 3.5. > > kc > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >