Nikkor-S Lens Help

[alexbennett]

The small metal tab with a red dot broke off of my Nikkor-S 50mm! Apparently it locks and holds the whole lens to the Nikon S3. Is there anything I can do to instead of ordering an entire new lens?

 

[Highway 61]

It happened to me once with a Nikkor-S 50mm/1.4. The culprit was the lens release tab of my Nikon SP which had got unscrewed a bit and out of exact alignment wiith the small pin of the lens mount helical, so it didn't recess properly when I mounted the lens and as a result the lens barrel tab broke.

AFAIK there is no easy remedy. Soldering wouldn't work but for high temperature plumbing brazing which would make the barrel melt. Making another tab thanks to drilling the barrel and making something protrude from the inside of the barrel was the solution I thought of, but this didn't seem realistic to me eventually.

At the end of the day I neatly filed down the broken tab so that it couldn't harm my fingers and I decided to leave the lens as it was.

I just made the lens mount more tightly onto the camera thanks to that good old trick :

http://www3.telus.net/public/rpnchbck/loose%20inner%20lens%20mount.html

Since, the lens has been passed onto a friend (RFF member) for his Nikon S3 2000. He always told me that the lens was keeping mounted tight with no problem in daily use. Ditto for dismounting and mounting the lens again and again.

 

[alexbennett]

It happened to me once with a Nikkor-S 50mm/1.4. The culprit was the lens release tab of my Nikon SP which had got unscrewed a bit and out of exact alignment wiith the small pin of the lens mount helical, so it didn't recess properly when I mounted the lens and as a result the lens barrel tab broke.

AFAIK there is no easy remedy. Soldering wouldn't work but for high temperature plumbing brazing which would make the barrel melt. Making another tab thanks to drilling the barrel and making something protrude from the inside of the barrel was the solution I thought of, but this didn't seem realistic to me eventually.

At the end of the day I neatly filed down the broken tab so that it couldn't harm my fingers and I decided to leave the lens as it was.

I just made the lens mount more tightly onto the camera thanks to that good old trick :

http://www3.telus.net/public/rpnchbck/loose%20inner%20lens%20mount.html

Since, the lens has been passed onto a friend (RFF member) for his Nikon S3 2000. He always told me that the lens was keeping mounted tight with no problem in daily use. Ditto for dismounting and mounting the lens again and again.

Exactly how I broke the tab off of mine. Thank you for that amazing article I never would have found! The lens is back on camera and seems very secure.