Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/03

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Subject: [Leica] Does anybody know anything about lenses? Yes! That would be me!
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:29:25 -0600
References: <DE2DF41F-6E67-4EFE-AB2C-997A54976482@gmail.com>

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
>
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In reply to: Message from leicaslacker at gmail.com (kyle cassidy on the LUG) ([Leica] Does anybody know anything about lenses? Yes! That would be me!)