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     Ront Tinkerer Username: Ront Post Number: 1 Registered: 09-2010 Rating: N/A |
so i got a Ricohflex VI recently and the mechanics were frozen. the gears just didnt spin. so i took it apart then added some grease so that it could spin better. i think someone before me took it apart and put it back together, but when they did they screwed both the front lenses all the way. i'm not sure if my camera was manufactured incorrectly, or if my parts were replaced, but both the front lenses screw in clockwise, and screw out counter-clockwise... so if i was to focus the viewing lens it would be un-focusing the taking lens. when i started reassembling the lenses following other instructions provided on this site i encountered some problems.... my method: -take off the external gears -put the ground glass where the film would be -focus the taking lens -then put the ground glass in the original spot -then focus the viewing lens the issue that i encountered was that no matter how much i spun the front lens, the image was always focused on 3 feet. rotating the front lens completely off to completely tight on didn't do anything. the only thing that changed the focus was moving the ground glass. the threading of both the front lenses is the same, the only difference is that one has one extra row of threading. how should i proceed? |