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Hello, I have a very nice modern Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 ZE manual focus lens that I recently obtained for a song because it has a problem that is the focus ring is extremely stiff particularly near infinity but otherwise works perfectly.
Just now I am working in Mexico so I took the lens for repair to an excellent professional camera repair service center in Mexico City and have just finished talking on the phone with the technician who says he has taken the lens apart and found it has two bent parts, probably due to being dropped by the former owner even though it has no cosmetic damage. He says he could fix the lens if he could obtain the two replacement parts but has not been able to do so.
My problem is that he only speaks spanish so he could not explain to me the names of the parts in english that I need to know in order to start searching for the parts in the US or elsewhere.
One of the parts he calls the "barrita" (small bar?); the other he calls the "cuerpo" that he says is an inner component of the lens and I figure he may be referring to the inner barrel. He says he could straighten the "barrita" (small bar?) but this would not solve the focusing problem unless the bent "cuerpo" (inner barrel?) that this bar has to fit into is also replaced.
SO to get to the point what I would like to ask anybody who has experience with taking lenses apart and/or is familiar with the technical terminology and/or has had a similar focusing problem with a lens if you may be able to hazard a guess as to what the names of these two parts may be?
Just now I am working in Mexico so I took the lens for repair to an excellent professional camera repair service center in Mexico City and have just finished talking on the phone with the technician who says he has taken the lens apart and found it has two bent parts, probably due to being dropped by the former owner even though it has no cosmetic damage. He says he could fix the lens if he could obtain the two replacement parts but has not been able to do so.
My problem is that he only speaks spanish so he could not explain to me the names of the parts in english that I need to know in order to start searching for the parts in the US or elsewhere.
One of the parts he calls the "barrita" (small bar?); the other he calls the "cuerpo" that he says is an inner component of the lens and I figure he may be referring to the inner barrel. He says he could straighten the "barrita" (small bar?) but this would not solve the focusing problem unless the bent "cuerpo" (inner barrel?) that this bar has to fit into is also replaced.
SO to get to the point what I would like to ask anybody who has experience with taking lenses apart and/or is familiar with the technical terminology and/or has had a similar focusing problem with a lens if you may be able to hazard a guess as to what the names of these two parts may be?