mdwsta4
Matty Westside
Hello. I recently purchased a LTM Summitar for what I felt was a good price. Unfortunately, I seem to be running into a few issues and was looking for guidance.
Upon receiving the lens, the aperture ring would not move and the focus ring was extremely stiff. After searching through the forums and stumbling upon Justin Low's tutorial, I was able to fix the stiff aperture ring and the focus ring. Unfortunately, when putting the rear lens back together I could not get the nearest focus point and infinity to align. I would be able to screw the pieces back together to get one or the other. So that's problem 1.
Today I received a LTM to M Mount adapter to use the lens. I tested it out on my M9 to see how everything worked. One thing I was afraid of was pulling up incorrect frame lines. Thankfully, I did not have that problem. However, I encountered two issues which may or may not be common since I've never used an LTM adapter before. First, should these adapters go on/off the camera body as easily as a regular M-mount lens? On both my M9 and M2, it seems like I have to really shove the lens on to align everything and lock it in. Second, on both cameras the damn thing wants to unscrew itself when I try to remove it! This may be due to a lack of grip on the Summitar lens and could easily be resolved with some loc-tite, but I wanted to know if this was common as well. This is problem 2.
Lastly, the lens front focuses quite a bit. This doesn't concern me as much on a digital body as I can review/reshoot easily enough. But as I primarily wanted to use this on my M2, it poses a problem. Could this be due to the focus ring issue I mentioned? Could it be related to the adapter? This is problem 3.
I guess what I'm getting at is the necessity of a CLA. It would be nice to have the focus ring properly aligned as well as the lens focusing properly. What would a service like this run? I have never had a CLA on a lens before. I'm not even sure if this would count as a CLA or really just an 'A'. Of course, dependent on price, and since they'd already have the lens, some internal dust could always be removed.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Unfortunately, after all is said and done, this lens doesn't appear to be as great of a deal as I initially thought. But perhaps once it is all repaired and can last another 60 years...
Thank you
M
Upon receiving the lens, the aperture ring would not move and the focus ring was extremely stiff. After searching through the forums and stumbling upon Justin Low's tutorial, I was able to fix the stiff aperture ring and the focus ring. Unfortunately, when putting the rear lens back together I could not get the nearest focus point and infinity to align. I would be able to screw the pieces back together to get one or the other. So that's problem 1.
Today I received a LTM to M Mount adapter to use the lens. I tested it out on my M9 to see how everything worked. One thing I was afraid of was pulling up incorrect frame lines. Thankfully, I did not have that problem. However, I encountered two issues which may or may not be common since I've never used an LTM adapter before. First, should these adapters go on/off the camera body as easily as a regular M-mount lens? On both my M9 and M2, it seems like I have to really shove the lens on to align everything and lock it in. Second, on both cameras the damn thing wants to unscrew itself when I try to remove it! This may be due to a lack of grip on the Summitar lens and could easily be resolved with some loc-tite, but I wanted to know if this was common as well. This is problem 2.
Lastly, the lens front focuses quite a bit. This doesn't concern me as much on a digital body as I can review/reshoot easily enough. But as I primarily wanted to use this on my M2, it poses a problem. Could this be due to the focus ring issue I mentioned? Could it be related to the adapter? This is problem 3.
I guess what I'm getting at is the necessity of a CLA. It would be nice to have the focus ring properly aligned as well as the lens focusing properly. What would a service like this run? I have never had a CLA on a lens before. I'm not even sure if this would count as a CLA or really just an 'A'. Of course, dependent on price, and since they'd already have the lens, some internal dust could always be removed.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Unfortunately, after all is said and done, this lens doesn't appear to be as great of a deal as I initially thought. But perhaps once it is all repaired and can last another 60 years...
Thank you
M
