Schneider-Kreuznach Technika Super-Angulon 65mm F8: Image Circle anyone?

[Steve Smith]

steve, you are the person ive been looking for! you commented on a thread i linked to in another thread, lol, about reccomending making a focusing mount. well, i bought a 50mm olympus 1.8 and took it apart. now im lost. i guess i am going the same route as you although finding a schneider technika lens with the newer shutter is quite difficult, none on ebay now except the one for 799 that i found. which shutter does yours have?

Mine has the smaller shutter which I have to send away for repair as one of the shutter blades fell out. This could be an advantage for you as it means I can take some pictures of the modified Olympus lens for you to look at and compare with yours.

I bought the Olympus lens on the recommendation of someone else who had done the same thing but it turns out that mine was not the same as his and it was easier to convert mine. His needed extra light-proofing and I think he had to reverse the helix whereas mine stayed as it was built.

I think you should just take it apart slowly and see what you are left with. You should end up with the half of the lens closest to the body mount (which you remove) then there is a bit of metal cutting and filing and you will need to make a lens board which mounts on the helix.

If you look at the last picture on my page you will see that all you are left with is the bit encased by the focusing ring.


Steve.

[Steve Smith]

I have attached some pictures of the parts I used. As you can see, there is not much of the Olympus lens left!


Steve.

[kauffman v36]

steve, thank you. the problem i am having taking apart the lens if removing the piece you showed in image #3, the silver part with the screw thread that goes inside of the focus mount and moves in and out, for the life of me, i can detach it from the glass elements. the rest seems pretty simple/

[Steve Smith]

You need to get rid of all the glass parts and the aperture mechanism first. I think most of the glass parts are hels in with thin threaded rings.

I think I started from the front. The bit which holds the front element in is the ring with all of the text around it. This is threaded into the same thread which a filter screws into. A small sharp watch makers screwdriver is sometimes useful here to push the ring round. Remember, you're not going to be putting it back together so a few scratches and marks don't matter.

From the back, I think it's three screws to remove the lens mount then probably three more to remove the aperture mechanism.


Steve.

[kauffman v36]

the text ring, in the front, seems to be my problem area, i have the rear completely off, but that black ring with the text on it does nto want to come off.