Contarex Super Aperture problems...

[manggokhs]

Hello, I am an owner of the Contarex Super.

The problem is that when I press the 'lens mount button' and shoot the camera, the 'aperture ring', which rotates when you cock and shoot the shutter, gets blocked and does not move until I take my hands off the 'lens mount button'.

It seems that the aperture ring should be assembled in a particular procedure.

I would like to ask for some help.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

I may be misreading what you are describing, but the only reason to depress the "lens mount button" is to allow you to remove the lens. You would not be, or should not be, depressing it when also pressing the shutter button to take a photo.
The aperture ring on the body should not be rotating when you cock the shutter; the only thing that moves it on a Contarex is the wheel which you move with your finger to select the aperture before you take the photo. It should not be moving otherwise.
And your hand should not be on the lens release button unless you are removing the lens from the body, not when you are otherwise using the camera, but, you are right, since the button is right next to the aperture readout dial/ring, if you had your finger on the button, you might block the movement of the aperture ring, but the aperture ring would only move when you are setting it with the wheel that controls it, not when you are taking a photo.

As I said, perhaps I misread the question somehow, but things seem a bit jumbled up here in terms of operating the Super.

 

[manggokhs]

I may be misreading what you are describing, but the only reason to depress the "lens mount button" is to allow you to remove the lens. You would not be, or should not be, depressing it when also pressing the shutter button to take a photo.
The aperture ring on the body should not be rotating when you cock the shutter; the only thing that moves it on a Contarex is the wheel which you move with your finger to select the aperture before you take the photo. It should not be moving otherwise.
And your hand should not be on the lens release button unless you are removing the lens from the body, not when you are otherwise using the camera, but, you are right, since the button is right next to the aperture readout dial/ring, if you had your finger on the button, you might block the movement of the aperture ring, but the aperture ring would only move when you are setting it with the wheel that controls it, not when you are taking a photo.

As I said, perhaps I misread the question somehow, but things seem a bit jumbled up here in terms of operating the Super.

What I was trying to indicate was the button which is on the 11 o'clock direction of the lens mount. The lens remove button is located on the 3 o'clock direction.

Thanks anyway!

 

[retinax]

Here's a link to the manual on Mike Butkus's site, maybe that will help calrifying what parts the issue is with. I don't see a button at 11 o'clock.

http://www.butkus.org/chinon/zeiss_ikon/zeiss_ikon_contarex_super/zeiss_ikon_contarex_super.htm
(Please consider donating to Butkus if you find the manual useful.)

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Here's a link to the manual on Mike Butkus's site, maybe that will help calrifying what parts the issue is with. I don't see a button at 11 o'clock.

http://www.butkus.org/chinon/zeiss_ikon/zeiss_ikon_contarex_super/zeiss_ikon_contarex_super.htm
(Please consider donating to Butkus if you find the manual useful.)

There is no button at 11 o'clock on any Super I have ever seen, so I would second the recommendation of the manual.

 

[manggokhs]

There is no button at 11 o'clock on any Super I have ever seen, so I would second the recommendation of the manual.

Please take a look at Henry Scherer's page. There are pictures and some description mentioning that:

"
You can see the little switch that was installed on the lens mount which accomplishes the latching of the aperture control mechanism when a lens is installed in the following photograph. The switch is located in about the 11:55 position

"

here is the link to Scherer's page.

http://www.zeisscamera.com/services_overhaul-contarex.shtml

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Aaaaaah, now I get it. The lever inside the lens mount. I will take a look at it tomorrow and see if I might be able to relate it to your specific problem.
The problem, if it is a problem, that you describe in the original post, this is something you are seeing with no lens mounted on the body, as you watch the behavior of the aperture ring when you cock and fire the shutter (with no lens mounted, but with your finger depressing the lever inside the lens mount)? Is that right, your question is about the behavior of the aperture ring, whether it is correct on your camera or not?

 

[manggokhs]

Aaaaaah, now I get it. The lever inside the lens mount. I will take a look at it tomorrow and see if I might be able to relate it to your specific problem.
The problem, if it is a problem, that you describe in the original post, this is something you are seeing with no lens mounted on the body, as you watch the behavior of the aperture ring when you cock and fire the shutter (with no lens mounted, but with your finger depressing the lever inside the lens mount)? Is that right, your question is about the behavior of the aperture ring, whether it is correct on your camera or not?

well, the aperture ring correctly turns when I have no lens mounted on camera. The problem happens when I put a lens on it. The shutter does not complete its exercise for the aperture ring, which should fully rotate, gets blocked by some deviation in the gear mechanism!

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Now that I fully understand the question, I realize that I can't help with an answer, sorry. Perhaps someone else might.