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Fixing an old lens: Difficult to install aperture ring & lens mount?

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RascalRaccoon

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Hi all,

 

I'm considering whether to acquire a lovely old pre-AI 35/1.4. It's missing its mount and aperture ring. Would it be possible — and if so, how hard would it be — to strip the mount and aperture ring from another lens of that era (an AI'd 35/2.8) and install them on the 35/1.4?

 

I haven't done anything like this before, but am moderately handy.

 

Thanks very much for any advice.



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As the 35/1.4 has that large rear element with the aperture actuating lever outside the shroud, substituting another mount won't be an easy operation. You will also have to always remember that the actual aperture is two steps wider than what is indicated on the aperture ring. 

 

As the mount is missing, does it have the rest of the parts for the aperture stop-down and coupling to the ring? Most parts that have to do with the aperture on the Nikkor-N 35/1.4 are unique to that lens.



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This is the kind of project that if the lens is "dirt-Cheap", I would buy if the glass is good and hope to run into the same model lens with bad glass later on. For this lens- it would have to be under $50~$75 or so.

 

Sometimes I get lucky. Usually rangefinder lenses are easier to cobble together than SLR lenses. I once put together a 50mm F1.5 Sonnar from 7 parts lenses.



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Thank you both. Decided to hold off and wait for a working copy instead.







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