Industar 61 LD with loose barrel

froyd

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I have a beloved Industar 61 with a slightly lose barrel. It still manages to produce nice pictures somehow, but it's not pleasant to handle.

Can anyone tell me how to get in touch with Brian? I heard he's no longer on RFF. Any other idea where to get the Industar repaired? Fedka?
 
I have an Industar 61 LD with the same issue. I've toyed around with different fixes but most cause other issues. Off hand, I'd try really hard to ignore it. 🙂

Basically, my attempts involved undoing the screws on the rear of the lens and trying to find something I could insert to take up the space between the rear of the mount and the front part, without being wide enough to cause the focus to change. I also tried adjusting the lube, putting a spacer in front (which moved the optics module if I remember correctly), etc. Its a fairly simple lens design and as long as the screws aren't stuck, easy to tinker with. You may have better luck than I. I just moved on to a Canon 50mm 1.8 in the end.
 
Mine, too, has the same problem; everything's just sloppy and moveable. I think it's just inherent to the design/build quality and something that you largely have to put up with. It certainly doesn't seem to have the best tolerances around. For example (and I'm saying this without taking mine apart, so take it with a grain of salt), mine seems to be moving in a way that suggests the barrel has too small a diameter and/or holes for pins or bolts that are too small.

This seems to correlate with an I26 displaying similar problems that I relubed recently: on that, the mount itself screws in tight, but the lens wobbles on the mount. This is because the mount is a separate plate which is held in place by the screws which fix the back plate to the focusing ring, sandwiching the mount in place. The problem I noticed was that the unthreaded holes on the mount's plate were slightly too large, allowing the movement and wobble I was experiencing. It wouldn't surprise me if the I61 was a similar construction with similar issues, and I can't imagine any way of fixing that without machining a new mounting plate OR making new (and more precise) holes.
 
Hi Tony- Thanks for the offer, but I'm based in the US and much as I like the Industar an international round trip voyage is too extravagant for the dear old thing.
 
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