> > From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/08 Wed PM 11:56:54 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: which camera to buy? > > 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 > > I'll give you £20 for it.
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