Kuribayashi C.C. Petri 55mm f2 front end
So I picked up another "Fast Fifty" lens. This time an older and funky Petri lens. The mount on this one is the later Petri breach style mount.
Unfortunately for me, Someone else got into this lens and messed it up a bit. And they lost all detent balls for the clicked aperture and clicked "Auto/Manual" switch at the back of the lens. Obviously they didn't have the right tools or know what they were doing with it. They scratched the name plate pretty badly, removed a lot of the black paint from the edges and slipped out of the two notches for removing the name plate. Looks like they used a screw driver and hit it on one side to turn the plate.
And then when reassembling the backend, they didn't get the aperture closer rod into the right spot. It was pretty screwed up.
Luckily, the worst they did was to loose those tiny ball bearings for the detents. The aperture ring was super loose and floppy and with no way to source those tiny metal balls, I just used some plastic glued to the inside edge of the aperture ring and the Auto/Manual ring to tighten them up and give them a bit of friction so they aren't flopping around.
Another upside is that the glass is very nice, no haze or mold, just a wee bit of dust that cleaned up nicely and the blades are completely clean and dry.
The lens now works and luckily the previous owner didn't totally destroy the lens to the point of it being useless.
Shot using a S-M-C Macro-Takumar 50mm f4 @f5.6
Kuribayashi C.C. Petri 55mm f2 front end
So I picked up another "Fast Fifty" lens. This time an older and funky Petri lens. The mount on this one is the later Petri breach style mount.
Unfortunately for me, Someone else got into this lens and messed it up a bit. And they lost all detent balls for the clicked aperture and clicked "Auto/Manual" switch at the back of the lens. Obviously they didn't have the right tools or know what they were doing with it. They scratched the name plate pretty badly, removed a lot of the black paint from the edges and slipped out of the two notches for removing the name plate. Looks like they used a screw driver and hit it on one side to turn the plate.
And then when reassembling the backend, they didn't get the aperture closer rod into the right spot. It was pretty screwed up.
Luckily, the worst they did was to loose those tiny ball bearings for the detents. The aperture ring was super loose and floppy and with no way to source those tiny metal balls, I just used some plastic glued to the inside edge of the aperture ring and the Auto/Manual ring to tighten them up and give them a bit of friction so they aren't flopping around.
Another upside is that the glass is very nice, no haze or mold, just a wee bit of dust that cleaned up nicely and the blades are completely clean and dry.
The lens now works and luckily the previous owner didn't totally destroy the lens to the point of it being useless.
Shot using a S-M-C Macro-Takumar 50mm f4 @f5.6