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Yannick
Tinkerer
Username: Yannick
Post Number: 1
Registered: 03-2013
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 09:28 am: | 
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Hey everyone,
Recently bought an FE2 off ebay, but it has a couple problems, I've contacted the seller and will be seeing what can be done.
Unfortunately one of the problems seems to be a broken lens release. I put a lens I had lying around on it (35-70 F 3.3-4.5 AF), and now it's stuck. Depressing the lens release does nothing, the lens stays completely in place, so I guess the little piece of metal isn't retracting.
Obviously this is a real problem if I'm gonna return the body. Is there anything that can be done aside from completely dismantling the camera?
Thanks. |
Yannick
Tinkerer
Username: Yannick
Post Number: 2
Registered: 03-2013
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 09:57 am: |
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I completely overlooked the obvious solution to this. There's a little cutout that lets you manually depress the prong.
Thought I'd post this incase anyone else ever has the same problem, rather than delete the thread. |
Hollenbj
Tinkerer
Username: Hollenbj
Post Number: 104
Registered: 03-2012
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 11:28 am: |
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I'm confused by this post. I have a few FE,FE2,FM,FM2,FA bodies (great cameras that are seriously undervalued these days). I don't see a "cutout". Is that something on, and specific to, their lens?
Glad the OP got his/her lens off. |
Sillyconguru
Tinkerer
Username: Sillyconguru
Post Number: 47
Registered: 12-2007
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 05:09 pm: |
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The cut-out is just visible when a (AI/AI-S/AI-P/AF/AF-D) lens is mounted; look closely at the part of the mount by the lens release button (with the aperture set a couple of stops off maximum) and you should see the locking pin. This doesn't work with pre-AI lenses due to the shape of the aperture ring. |
Br1078lum
Tinkerer
Username: Br1078lum
Post Number: 511
Registered: 11-2010
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 07:47 pm: |
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Hollenbj, if you look at the back of any Nikon mount lens, you will see a slot at the 9:00 position (matching the mount locking pin at 3:00 if looking at the camera mount). This is where the mount locking pin goes when the lens is mounted. On an AI lens, you can access this slot from the side in case your mount locking pin gets stuck, as in Yannick's case. A small screwdriver usually does the trick.
But on a non/AI bayonet, as Sillycongaru points out, the aperture ring extends beyond the edge of the bayonet, and blocks access to the slot.
PF |
Hollenbj
Tinkerer
Username: Hollenbj
Post Number: 105
Registered: 03-2012
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 22, 2013 - 09:25 pm: |
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Aha! At maximum aperture...I see it. I never knew. How many years have I spent with these cameras? We won't say. |
