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Free GONE! for cost of shipping: INDUSTAR-61 53mm f2.8 LTM lens

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AnselMortensen

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FREE for cost of CONUS shipping:
1 used FSU Industar-61 53mm f4.5 LTM lens,
39mm screwmount.
Cosmetics are decent, glass is decent, aperture works, helical moves decently.
A bit dusty, could use a cleaning.
Main issue is that the focusing helical is misaligned...what should be "infinity" focus reads as ~2.4 meters. Minimum focus (1 meter) is off the scale.
SEE PHOTOS.
I am not a lens repair person...if I attempted to fix this, it would end up in pieces in a box...therefore it's better that someone else should have it and return it to its former glory.
Shipping cost should be $10.
 
It's easy to fix. See those screws where vertical ridges are? I'll hazard a guess from memory (disassembled this lens once, years ago) that they grip the focusing ring to the respective moving part. Release a bit, see if ring moves freely. If so, it's a matter of alignment/indexing to get the right amount of movement.

Take measuring tape, measure a meter from film plane to the printed 1m on the barrel, adjust lens so that the camera rangefinder focuses on said 1m, and that will get your distance reading ± on spot.

Had similar problem, fixed it back then.

Neat lens in my experience.
 
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