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De-clicking Zuiko 24mm 2.8?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 2:48 am    Post subject: De-clicking Zuiko 24mm 2.8? Reply with quote
Until recently, I thought that clickless lenses were useful mainly for video.
Lately, I bought a Meike 28 f/2.8. I find the lens to be OK, I enjoy the format as it's a pancake lens but, above all and to my surprise, I realized how much I like a clickless lens.
It makes for me a big difference when I walk around with my X-E1.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to de-click one of my favorites, my Zuiko 24 2.8 and, in case, how difficult it would be.
Any hints?


PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
This video shows how it's done with the 50, is it the same thing on the 24?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnGBuMio8QI

It seems pretty straightforward.


PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 5:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's pretty much like in the video, except that I'd recommend that you also pull out the detent spring.


PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gardener wrote:
It's pretty much like in the video, except that I'd recommend that you also pull out the detent spring.


Which part is the spring detent?


PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The ball is going to be sitting over a hole, inside the hole there's going to be a spring. You'll see.


PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gardener wrote:
The ball is going to be sitting over a hole, inside the hole there's going to be a spring. You'll see.


Thank you, Gardener.
I think I'm going to try this! Smile


PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Perhaps right moment to ask: are all Zeiss lenses for Icarex declicked?


PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pancolart wrote:
Perhaps right moment to ask: are all Zeiss lenses for Icarex declicked?

They are click-less, instead of de-clicked. Wink


PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm trying but I guess my lens is not as loose as the one in the video.
Is this the tool I would need in order to properly disassemble it?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pro-DSLR-Lens-Spanner-Wrench-Opening-Tool-For-Camera-Repair-open-Tools-15-100MM/401450696518?hash=item5d78537f46:g:PHIAAOSw6ctaxu~J


PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You need the kind that has bent pins to access those small recessed notches. But, frankly, my first go to tool is putty on a piece of plastic pipe.


PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gardener wrote:
You need the kind that has bent pins to access those small recessed notches. [...]


Like this one?
https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Professional-Spanner-Repairing-Stainless/dp/B00J5F73GA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1524462014&sr=8-4&keywords=Lens+Spanner+Wrench&dpID=412LQTayd9L&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch


PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 6:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yep
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