Quantray looks just like it, spanner wrenches look correct to. Maybe I can
find a cheaper one, but it is the rear lens way inside two long tubes that I
don't see how to get out. I'll look tomorrow.
I cleaned the inside of the larger one by getting the cleaner cloth damp,
dropping in inside, then holding the cleaner bottle by the neck and using
the bottom to clean it. It was one of those 'can't make it worse' days.
Beats me what I am going to say about the lens I'm not terribly tickled
with, They are OK, I can't call them great, though they may be compared to
anything besides a Zuiko.
The Seimar might be an OK lens, as far as 500mm's go, the only thing I have
to compare it against is Jan's 500 shoot out page, I haven't found where his
estimate of the distance is, as the further away things get, the greyer they
seem to become, of course, the air where he lives may also be a little itsy
bit cleaner than where I was doing my Red Shoulder Hawk shots. Once I see
Jan's distances I'm going to try to estimate the same size and compare mine
to his, maybe I am as good as the Vivitar (barf), but I'd really like an Oly
2X-A to compare my Vivitar 2 X to.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Moose
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 10:39 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: New Person to the group
Scott Peden wrote:
> I have a 500 mm F8 Seimar
>
So far off name brand that I've never heard of it.
> Long and light, I've had it apart several times, greasy stuff or loads of
> dust inside, I can't get to one lens surface on the inside and the larger
> front one, I am assuming I only needed the middle of the lens to be in
great
> shape (using a E-500) and each cleaning seems to improve it, it was way to
> blurry the first time and the oily shit on the inside of the front lens
was
> exceptionally visible.
> $41 after shipping, so I am keeping my beefs about it down.
>
> But.... I can't find any references about it anywhere.
Nor will you.
> The fella that sold it to me
...is a great salesman.
> told me it was a great lens and I knew he was lying the minute I
> saw grease and dust on the inside....... but it hasn't been as ad as my
> first impression was.
>
It's probably the same thing as the ones Jeff refers to. Cleaned up, it
may be pretty decent.
> So I have been watching all the other 500 mm F8 lens's to see if one of
them
> looks like mine.
>
Something like this
<http://cgi.ebay.com/Tele-Astranar-500mm-f8-Universal-mount-lens_W0QQitemZ25
0086370790QQihZ015QQcategoryZ707QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item250086370790>?
Or this
<http://cgi.ebay.com/Quantaray-500mm-Lens_W0QQitemZ170081647712QQihZ007QQcat
egoryZ707QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item170081647712>?
Looks like the same thing is still being sold new under at least the
Opteka and Phoenix brand names
> Are there any suggestions on how to get a cleaning lens cloth into the
small
> end of the inside of this?
>
You probably need to do further disassembly. Lenses, esp. old, simple
ones, are generally assembled using rings that screw in and out using
spanner wrenches like these
<http://www.micro-tools.com/store/SearchByCategory.aspx?CategoryCode=SPN>.
One may sometimes get by with needle nose pliers, snap ring tools with
modified tips, etc.
Moose
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