I don't see why not, but I've never had a leica lens apart. if you haven't worked on lenses before, I'd send it to a respectable lens repair shop to have them remove the click ball.
@@romanstehling6329 sounds like a good idea if its a complicated lens. the OM's with front ring are about as simple as it gets.if you want to learn, old FD's are good practice because they are a bit complicated and have a couple springs to make it interesting.
@@thedp Yeah! Just went today to a Leica lens specialist who was recommended by the official Leica store. €50.00! Boom! Friday I get my lens back. He warned me to do it myself since this lense could be easily damaged. Anyway, now I am having a Leica cine mod lens, which is amazing for filmmaking. Steve, thanks again for your great video! That solved my problem and pointed me to the solution.
Really dumb question, but what is that silver ring with the two push points? I have this lens, and the adapter isn't catching right. I can only adjust the aperture when I push on the silver part. What is this ring for? Sorry I'm so clueless...
@@thedp Thanks, it is the mount, but there's buttons. It's not in front of me, and I'm dead tired and can't remember clearly. What is the purpose of pushing the buttons and having it affect the aperture? Or is this just on mine? The aperture only stops down when pressed. It does the same thing as that little pin adapters catch to get manual aperture control. It's got to be simple and I feel dumb asking. ☺️It's hard to find answers when you don't even know what to search for.
one is stop down button, the other changes the lens from Auto to Manual iris operation. yes the adapters hit the stop down button that a film camera body would to close the iris down.
Thanks, this gives me a good idea to start but I'm specifically wondering about declicking an apollo 135mm 1.8. I can't find anything online. Do you know if this lens presents any problems for declicking? My tinkering is very intermediate.
+Jakub Gaňa send me one :) I had one. canon mount is more complicated, and there are 2 mounts, the old SCC and the newer breech mount. they come apart differently and you have to remove about 1/3 of the parts off the back of the lens to do that, never mind 2 or 3 springs and levers to get right.
off topic, but what do you think about the 24 2.0 Kiron, not the victor model. Looks to be sharp but was wondering bc I found one on eBay, but cannot find many reviews. Thanks
you mean the actual kiron branded lens ? soft / vintage look wide open, stopped down a bit like 3.5 or 4 perfectly good. over time though this lens has gotten a bit loose, and the apeture sticky past 5.6. I haven't had time to take it apart and clean it / investigate what is probably a spring that needs to be shortened to increase its tension. maybe some grease ran in the lens. So who knows. I came into the lens when I bought a lot of lenses from some one selling a pile of old gear.
no clue. If the apeture ring is on the front its probably easy and reasonably similar. if its on the back, I've not personally taken any nikon glass apart. Canon FD, Kiron, tokina I have and it can vary in complexity. On Canon FD you have to rewire the springs in side to have continuous apeture but the adapter SHOULD hit the stop down pin so its not a problem.
wow!.. i just bought a lens and it turned out the previous owner declick the lens.. so i just need to find some little ball to make it click again? do u know where to get that ball and also all the lens are same parts? thank youu..
its just a steel ball. any will do if its about the right size. that said I have no clue what the diameter is. I take them out and they just disappear. try searching ebay ? or some googling ?
Once you've found out what diameter you need (take it apart and measure the slot) you could search on sites that sell mechanical parts for a ball bearing and tear that open. Normally they have technical drawings in the description, and if it's an ISO part you'll probably find out which bearing has which ball size. Idk if thats the way to go but it might work
Okay right off the batyou need to be taking a little bit of nail polish with acetone putting it on a q-tip and then dabbing it where the screws are to loosen up the loctite before you strip the screws.
there is no locktite on anything from the factory. you also really do not want to try putting a solvent like that into a lens where run off can dissolve grease causing it to go where it shouldn't. ditto the water. With enough pressure, and quality tools, you will not strip the screws. They are put in at the factory and simply well torqued in. On rare occasion, heat applied via a soldering iron can be put on a screw to expaned it, let it cool off, then try again. thats the only method I'd reccomend on a _lens_.
ARE YOU KIDDING?! I don't know how many sleepless nights I've been through to find the perfect de-clicked lens! THANK YOU! I can now go to sleep!
you're welcome... keeping in mind this lens was pretty easy, and many OM lenses are just as easy, but some lenses have the ball buried deeper in :/
Thank you , an excellent demonstration on how to declick an fd lens. I now feel confident to have a go myself .
i repeat the compliment. great video. thanks. i'll go watch more now.
Excited to try this on a $3000 lens 😂😂😂
How'd it go
@@TechnoNates she didn't
@@dhavalvyadav She?
amazing! I want to do this with my helios 44m-4, and over time make it film-friendly
Great video one again Steve!
Thanks for showing me how to make my lens click again!
Great video! Just what I needed. What size screwdriver are you using?
um, no idea. I had a set and picked the middle one so maybe 000
Could I do this on a $6,000 Leica M Lens?
I don't see why not, but I've never had a leica lens apart. if you haven't worked on lenses before, I'd send it to a respectable lens repair shop to have them remove the click ball.
@@thedp Thank you, Steve! Just found a video and it looks way more complex. Will probably call Leica here in Germany and take it from there.
@@romanstehling6329 sounds like a good idea if its a complicated lens. the OM's with front ring are about as simple as it gets.if you want to learn, old FD's are good practice because they are a bit complicated and have a couple springs to make it interesting.
@@thedp Yeah! Just went today to a Leica lens specialist who was recommended by the official Leica store. €50.00! Boom! Friday I get my lens back. He warned me to do it myself since this lense could be easily damaged. Anyway, now I am having a Leica cine mod lens, which is amazing for filmmaking. Steve, thanks again for your great video! That solved my problem and pointed me to the solution.
Thanks for the video!
Really dumb question, but what is that silver ring with the two push points? I have this lens, and the adapter isn't catching right. I can only adjust the aperture when I push on the silver part. What is this ring for? Sorry I'm so clueless...
which ring ? the back most part is the lens mount - its an OM film camera mount
@@thedp Thanks, it is the mount, but there's buttons. It's not in front of me, and I'm dead tired and can't remember clearly. What is the purpose of pushing the buttons and having it affect the aperture? Or is this just on mine? The aperture only stops down when pressed. It does the same thing as that little pin adapters catch to get manual aperture control. It's got to be simple and I feel dumb asking. ☺️It's hard to find answers when you don't even know what to search for.
one is stop down button, the other changes the lens from Auto to Manual iris operation. yes the adapters hit the stop down button that a film camera body would to close the iris down.
@@thedp Thanks!
Thanks, this gives me a good idea to start but I'm specifically wondering about declicking an apollo 135mm 1.8. I can't find anything online. Do you know if this lens presents any problems for declicking? My tinkering is very intermediate.
May I ask you for canon fd 50mm 1.4 ssc lens declicking? It will be a great help for me :) And also, awesome video :)
+Jakub Gaňa send me one :) I had one. canon mount is more complicated, and there are 2 mounts, the old SCC and the newer breech mount. they come apart differently and you have to remove about 1/3 of the parts off the back of the lens to do that, never mind 2 or 3 springs and levers to get right.
thank you for this!
Thanks for uploading this!
off topic, but what do you think about the 24 2.0 Kiron, not the victor model. Looks to be sharp but was wondering bc I found one on eBay, but cannot find many reviews. Thanks
you mean the actual kiron branded lens ? soft / vintage look wide open, stopped down a bit like 3.5 or 4 perfectly good. over time though this lens has gotten a bit loose, and the apeture sticky past 5.6. I haven't had time to take it apart and clean it / investigate what is probably a spring that needs to be shortened to increase its tension. maybe some grease ran in the lens. So who knows. I came into the lens when I bought a lot of lenses from some one selling a pile of old gear.
What about a nikon 50 1.4d or 1.8d? Do you think they are similar to this lens?
no clue. If the apeture ring is on the front its probably easy and reasonably similar. if its on the back, I've not personally taken any nikon glass apart. Canon FD, Kiron, tokina I have and it can vary in complexity. On Canon FD you have to rewire the springs in side to have continuous apeture but the adapter SHOULD hit the stop down pin so its not a problem.
Thanks! That was really easy
wow!.. i just bought a lens and it turned out the previous owner declick the lens.. so i just need to find some little ball to make it click again? do u know where to get that ball and also all the lens are same parts? thank youu..
its just a steel ball. any will do if its about the right size. that said I have no clue what the diameter is. I take them out and they just disappear. try searching ebay ? or some googling ?
Once you've found out what diameter you need (take it apart and measure the slot) you could search on sites that sell mechanical parts for a ball bearing and tear that open. Normally they have technical drawings in the description, and if it's an ISO part you'll probably find out which bearing has which ball size. Idk if thats the way to go but it might work
You would need to buy a pretty small bearing for such a small ball but i'm pretty sure those exist
@@mariuszach1344 do you still need a lens ball ? I might take a OM lens apat in the next few weeks and could mail it to you. msg me direct
Okay right off the batyou need to be taking a little bit of nail polish with acetone putting it on a q-tip and then dabbing it where the screws are to loosen up the loctite before you strip the screws.
there is no locktite on anything from the factory. you also really do not want to try putting a solvent like that into a lens where run off can dissolve grease causing it to go where it shouldn't. ditto the water. With enough pressure, and quality tools, you will not strip the screws. They are put in at the factory and simply well torqued in. On rare occasion, heat applied via a soldering iron can be put on a screw to expaned it, let it cool off, then try again. thats the only method I'd reccomend on a _lens_.