Anyone know how to remove front element of Super Ikonta Tessar?

[Dan Daniel]

Often this is vapors of oil from the shutter. Glad it cleaned up well and that the camera is working. nice photo.

 

[Ariston]

Often this is vapors of oil from the shutter. Glad it cleaned up well and that the camera is working. nice photo.

Ahhh - you are probably right. It did not have the typical fungus look, but I have had lenses with very light fungus in the past that was hard to recognize as fungus without close scrutiny, so I assumed this was the same.

It really made my day to get this camera working. I had already sent it to Michael Zacks, so now I have a fully functioning Ikonta with a clean lens and an accurate shutter... and a perfect viewfinder thanks to you, Dan. I hope to preserve (and use) as many older cameras as I can, because they are not making any more. They don't make anything like it anymore.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Glad that came out well (without having to recalibrate the RF). The sample image looks pretty good.