[Leica] Does anybody know anything about lenses? Yes! That would be me!

[Jim Nichols]

Congratulations on the surgery!

I have the Canon 50mm 1.4 lens, and get agitated by the infinity lock.  
Have you removed the lock on your Serenar?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 11/3/2014 4:16 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote:
> So … my 50mm Canon Serenar f1.8 wouldn’t focus to infinity, it hit a hard stop about 4mm away. Advice on the LUG was divided 50/50 between “buy a real lens you dope” and “send it to sherry” — I opted for solution c) and bought a spanner wrench and opened the lens like a coconut and found this:
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> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2014/lenses.jpg
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> a small screw had come loose sometime in the past 50 years got had fallen inside the track that the focus ring moves through. I popped it out with a toothpick and replaced it where it had fallen from and it works fine now. whole operation (minus waiting for the spanner wrench to arrive) was about five minutes.
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> And now for my next trick, adding haze to a 35mm f 3.5.
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> kc
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