Porst Palavar

[caledonia84]

I have and old Porst 50mm f1.4 with the aperture stuck wide open. Normally I'd find a tutorial and attempt a repair but there's very little info on this lens let alone a servicing tutorial. I had a go anyway.

The plan was to take the front element cluster out and clean the blades with some lighter fluid, should be pretty straight forward.......

My heart sank when I realised I'd need to open the aperture mechanism, never tried that and didn't really fancy doing so either, anyway I ended up with 8 individual oily blades lying in front of me. They were easy to clean actually, took me 2 hours to get the blades back in only to find out I'd done it wrong and had to start again 😭

It's done now though!


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[caledonia84]

Hmmmm Flickr links not working will try and sort it

[gray1720]

Been there... done that... know *exactly* how it feels! Well done getting it back together, though, doesnt always happen. I've a camera in bits at the mo until I can face it again, and one of its kin spent five years in bits before I got round to it.

[caledonia84]

I've got two failed Yashica DX 45mm f1.7 conversions from some donar yashica electros on my shelf mocking me as we speak!