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Author Message   Jeffk Tinkerer Username: Jeffk Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2011 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 12:32 pm:    Just found this site, great stuff! Nice to see I'm not the only old camera nut around, I have a nice little collection of old film cameras that use now and then, in addition to my Kyocera/Contax cameras that I do most of my shooting with. Mostly old Zeiss, Contax, Leica, Minox, including a 122 roll-film Nixe from the late '20's that can still produce very nice poster-size B&W landscapes. So I see now, probably, why the one roll of film I put through my Zeiss Ikoflex Ic produced less-than-stellar quality photos - the taking lens appears to be clouded inside. This isn't surprising, the camera has a faint mold odor from poor storage by the previous owner(s) (though it is otherwise pristine and as-new), but I can't figure out how to get the lens apart. This is the 75 mm Novar lens. There is a ring at the front that I could possibly remove with a spanner of some kind, but it's tight and a small screwdriver doesn't do it. I tried unscrewing the whole chrome rim, but it doesn't budge. Has anyone here tackled this problem on this camera?