That's great. I'm glad to hear everything worked out.
Both times I did it I thought it might be best to open up the back of
the lens so that I could make sure the lever didn't bend in the wrong
place but concerns about dis-assembly & re-assembly motivated me to
give it cautious trial bend first which was all it took. Both of the
lenses I had to fix were long telephotos. The weight of the lens
probably made it easy to bend the levers when someone wasn't careful
enough mounting them on the camera.
It's a little surprising that the telescoping auto tube would suffer
the same fate. I regularly carry one with a Zuiko 135 mounted on it.
However none of the Zuiko lenses used with the tube are very large, so
I wouldn't expect anyone to exert much force.
Best wishes,
-jeff
On 12/30/06, priit@xxxxxxxxx <priit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Jeff, your post was very helpful. I took a pair of pliers and bent
> the lever. This was enough to persuade it to work across the entire
> aperture range. Sounds simple, but sometimes you just don't think about
> the brute force approach immediately :)
>
> priit.
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