Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 2:45 am Post subject: |
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karthikrr wrote:
If you are good with tools and feel confident about trying to fix this, it is a good lens to learn and practice on. As already mentioned, it could be very simple or a lost cause, and the only way to know is to take it apart. If you decide to do that, I do recommend you remove all glass first (ideally as a whole optical block, which is possible on other helios variants, but I don't have experience with this version) and only then try to fix the rest.
If you are not feeling confident, or don't have the right tools for the job, it's better to sell it off and buy another one.
Edit : I would first try to remove the front name ring and see if there are screws holding the focus ring under it. If that's the design on this lens (again, I don't know this to be true), you might get lucky and just need to tighten those screws. The only operations that are genuinely intimidating while learning are taking apart the helicoid and the aperture blades for cleaning. Fun, if you are mechanically inclined, but if not, an absolute nightmare. |