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     Glenn Tinkerer Username: Glenn Post Number: 924 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A |
Your camera will be a very early Zorki 1 or a body fitted with an early lens mount. I suspect you will find that your lens is threaded 39mm metric pitch and thread form and the mount on the body is true LTM - 39mm imperial pitch and thread form. Whatever the cause, I have four very early Zorki 1 bodies that all exhibited this problem and as I was mounting lenses with steel or brass mounts, forcing was not an option. After much playing about with my other Zorki and FED bodies and a variety of Leitz and Russian lenses, I just changed the body mounts for later manufactured versions. Now this could all be down to machining tolerances in the Soviet factories - in those far off days tool setting seems not to have been on the Collective's agenda - but forcing certainly was not an option. Perhaps others can cast light on the true nature of the problem if my observations with pitch gauges etc, has been sabotaged by Soviet tolerances and lack of quality control. |