Originally Posted by
bashful
I acquired a Nikkor-W 135mm f5.6 at a swap meet, and realized when I got home that it's in a Copal #0 f9-f64 shutter. Online research (okay, eB*y pictures) suggest it belongs in an f5.6-f64 shutter, as does the LF resource page.
I'm sure the first suggestion will be that I put some painter's tape over the aperture scale and re-calibrate it myself. Is it as simple as:
- Hold the lens firmly pointing at a stable light source like a computer monitor displaying blank white
- Open the lens fully
- Spot meter the lens from the rear, adjusting this to represent f5.6
- Close the aperture until the spot reading is f8, f11, f16 etc., marking the position for each. (Full stops are good enough for my work.)
This pre-supposes the fully open aperture actually is f5.6.
Second:
I understand the aperture scale is pretty closely matched to the physical properties of the lens. How would I go about identifying a Copal #0 shutter without lens which would be correct for this lens? The shutter the lens is currently in is marked '27' - is there a codification of which lens a specific shutter is marked for? The reverse case is also of interest - how would I determine which lens this shutter 'belongs' to, should I ever have the chance to transplant a lens with a damaged shutter into this working shutter?
Thanks in advance for furthering my education - I suspect there's some language that I'm missing which will make this clearer to me.
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