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Nando
Tinkerer
Username: Nando
Post Number: 1
Registered: 11-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 02:23 pm: | 
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Hello everybody,
I was wondering if anybody could recommend a good place to send a Carl Zeiss 20mm/f2.8 Flektogon for repair. It is the MC, m42 mount version.
I placed a cheap screw-on hood on the lens and unfortunately the hood got stuck. When I tried removing the hood, the helicoid started to unscrew from the barrel of lens. I got the hood off and screwed back the helicoid into the lens. All seemed find until I went to use the lens. It wouldn't focus. The focusing ring would turn but nothing happened.
I disassembled the lens to see if I could make any sense of the problem. I reassembled it and it still won't focus and now the aperture only goes down to f15 instead of f22. I figured that I'm way in over my head on this one and I would like to send it to a professional repair person.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Fernando |
York_praktica_fan
Tinkerer
Username: York_praktica_fan
Post Number: 24
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 06:16 am: |
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Fernando
it would give us some help if you could tell us where you are.
the cost of air-maiing a lens can be pretty high (and potentially slow)
i know of a good guy who is now based in Canada and can recommend a couple of good facilities in the UK.
Stephen |
Nando
Tinkerer
Username: Nando
Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 06:42 am: |
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Stephen,
Thank you so much for your response. I live in Canada. I would very much appreciate the contact information for these repair people. Perhaps, I'm still in a state of shock but at the moment, I'm not too concerned about costs - I love the lens and I just want to get it fixed.
If you rather email me the contact info instead of posting it here, feel free to send me a private message.
Thanks again,
Fernando |
York_praktica_fan
Tinkerer
Username: York_praktica_fan
Post Number: 25
Registered: 07-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 09:45 am: |
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Fernando
i have sent you a private e-mail giving you details of a Canada based repairer.
I've gone private as I don't want to publicise his e-mail address without his permission
Stephen |
Nando
Tinkerer
Username: Nando
Post Number: 3
Registered: 11-2007
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 04:18 pm: |
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Stephen,
Thank you so very much. I'm going to contact this repairer. I very much appreciate your help.
Fernando |
