----- Original Message ----- From: "Wally & Wolfgang Thoma-Schuermans" <th...@pandora.be> > > Very interesting. I have a Lubitel myself (bought in a second hand shop > in Prague for 10 USD) that I wanted to use for "serious" 6x6 work, but > it leaks light like hell, so why not transform it. Can you give me > details (how to open the lens) etc. Can I still use the shutter? > greetings, Taco
Taco, It is actually very easy, the shutter/lens assembly come off by removing the lock nut at the rear and accessed thru the inside of the camera, use a screwdriver to turn the nut, once the assembly is off the camera, unscrew the very front of the lens, then you'll see another small lens also part of the front lens elements, this one is removed by removing a "C" clip. At the rear of the shutter there is another "C" clip that allow you to remove the rear lens element. I mount the new aperture in place of the rear element, this place the ZP, etc. 65mm or so from the film plane. I first mount the ZP on a plastic circle that fits snugly on the rear of the shutter, I usually use plastic from one of those 35mm canister's cap. Recently I have decided I will not use this cameras with their original glass, so I being making a hole in the center of the glass rear element and mount the aperture there. Guillermo
