aw614
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I am not sure where to put this and my thoughts are kind of scrambled trying to type this out, but here goes...
Found a cheapish Summitar on ebay (Price was good and I am waiting for my local camera store to see if they can fix 1946 one that is focusing past infinity issue). I did buy it b/c it looked to be uncoated and had a six blade aperture which just seemed really weird.
Serial number is 552742 which puts it at 1940 range, but it has six bladed aperture on it. Based on the info online, that should have been on a newer 50s era Summitar? Additionally the aperture from F2 to F16, I thought all earlier summitars go from f2 to F12.5? Did early 40s models have the distance markers in feet or meters? This summitar is in feet.
The upper part of the glass, seems uncoated, but I i think the glass closer to the mount flange area is coated. Like i think the front half of glass of the lens and housing is off an early model, but the rear portion I might be a off a newer one, which might explain the six blade aperture model
Has anyone every gotten something like this? the other issue is the aperture won't line up with the aperture indicator dot. When the lens is wide open, it lands on between F2.8 and F4. If it focuses right...I'd like to fix the aperture scale to be accurate.
I don't think its worth asking for a refund as the glass is in usable shape for its age and I'd like to use it. Doing a quick check on ebay, feels like this could be expensive to fix...
Some pictures of this:





Found a cheapish Summitar on ebay (Price was good and I am waiting for my local camera store to see if they can fix 1946 one that is focusing past infinity issue). I did buy it b/c it looked to be uncoated and had a six blade aperture which just seemed really weird.
Serial number is 552742 which puts it at 1940 range, but it has six bladed aperture on it. Based on the info online, that should have been on a newer 50s era Summitar? Additionally the aperture from F2 to F16, I thought all earlier summitars go from f2 to F12.5? Did early 40s models have the distance markers in feet or meters? This summitar is in feet.
The upper part of the glass, seems uncoated, but I i think the glass closer to the mount flange area is coated. Like i think the front half of glass of the lens and housing is off an early model, but the rear portion I might be a off a newer one, which might explain the six blade aperture model
Has anyone every gotten something like this? the other issue is the aperture won't line up with the aperture indicator dot. When the lens is wide open, it lands on between F2.8 and F4. If it focuses right...I'd like to fix the aperture scale to be accurate.
I don't think its worth asking for a refund as the glass is in usable shape for its age and I'd like to use it. Doing a quick check on ebay, feels like this could be expensive to fix...
Some pictures of this:




