What caused it to fail?
Clue lens was mounted on a board but was not on a camera at the time it failed.
Winner get the matted 8 x 10 contact print shown.
Answer on Monday if no one comes up with the right answer.
What caused it to fail?
Clue lens was mounted on a board but was not on a camera at the time it failed.
Winner get the matted 8 x 10 contact print shown.
Answer on Monday if no one comes up with the right answer.
Richard T Ritter
www.lg4mat.net
Total shot in the dark: The lens + lensboard experienced an impact and the torque from the lens sheared off some screws and broke the shutter.
Well, it does look like it took a hit somehow. The, uh, black ring thingamabob there on the top layer in that left portion is broken, parts of it are missing on the right side.
Originally Posted by BarryS
Lens was being held while a retaining ring was being torqued on the back of the lensboard or vice versa. Too much force and breaky-breaky.
Someone tried to un-screw the shutter that was mounted on a metal lens board while the index pin was still attached.
Last edited by Gem Singer; 10-Sep-2010 at 14:34.
Liquid Nitrogen, tight filter, frostbitten hands....happens all the time...
The shutter blades are missing. That would do it.
Apparently the rest of you are just too young to see - a 3 year old grandkid did that...
Cheers,
Richard
My guess...
Dropped in the toilet, bouncing off the porcelain rim on the way down...
Someone either used the aperture lever as a grip to unscrew the shutter
or they pushed the aperture lever too hard thinking it was the shutter cocking lever.
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