De-clicking still lenses in Toronto

CinemaElectronika said:
Anyone has tried de-cklicking any Zeiss ZF's?
Would love to know how... if possible!
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As Hunter stated and I humbly found out, it's a pretty simple mechanism inside the lens which creates the 'click stop'. There is often a very small ball on a tab underneath the aperture ring, that keys into tiny grooves cut into the plastic or metal. Very easy to remove without any headache.

My suggestion for the ZF's is to just find someone's photos that took one apart (I found tonnes of lens deconstruction photos on flickr.com)

Follow those photos as far as getting off the aperture ring (usually the first and easiest component to remove), and the proceed to root out and remove the clicker... should be easy, but don't quote me on it...
 
found it! All you have to do is get through 'the maze' first...

zeiss18mm.jpg
 
Okay, I found the rear of a ZF, and it looks very similar to the 'easy as pie' Nikon e-series lenses I took apart.

You'll see three small screws on the back, take them off with a mini star-head screwdriver. The metal part will pop off. Once that part pops off, it will release the aperture ring to be able to be removed. The aperture ring may be held on by a small screw or two, so take that off as well. Get the aperture ring off, and it will become obvious very quickly that there is small ball or small tab with a ball which creates the 'clicks'. It will probably be either screwed on with ultra tiny screws or there will be some way to rip it off very easily without damaging any thing.

Take it off, re-assemble, and you're good to go.

Rear of ZF: ignore the red circle, it's from someone else's instructions, I'm just referencing those three rear screws....

ZF2-rear-contacts-small.jpg


And also re-read Hunter's instructions 'cause he said it all better than me!
 
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