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Post by hannes on Oct 5, 2016 12:16:58 GMT -5
Hello: A co worker gave me this beautiful King Regula Super automatic from his father to check. It is the end of line of the Regula III series and has all features a photgrapher wanted at that time. Coupled rangefinder, coupled exposure meter and interchangable lenses. There are frames in the view finder for 50, 90 and 135mm lens but not the 35mm lens. This camera seems to be rare, I cannot find one in ebay right now. The IIId can be found regularily for reasonable prices. The camera is in really good condition. Rangefinder, lightmeter work, the shutter sounds fine even on 1sec. It is equipped with the 35 mm Westron lens which has/had 2 problems a) The aperture blades are sticky due to too much oil. It closes delayed. b) The focus did not move. It felt like it was locked. But after some time holding it in my hands warming up the lens and with carfeful force it moved, After turning it from end to end some times it is woring. Anyway this lens needs a CLA.
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Post by mickeyobe on Oct 5, 2016 12:37:35 GMT -5
Hello: a) The aperture blades are sticky due to too much oil. It closes delayed. b) The focus did not move. It felt like it was locked. But after some time holding it in my hands warming up the lens and with carfeful force it moved, After turning it from end to end some times it is woring. Anyway this lens needs a CLA. Hannes, Try a few drops of lighter fluid judiciously applied. It can work wonders. Mickey
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Post by hannes on Apr 6, 2017 13:09:39 GMT -5
Hello again:
Meanwhile I got a Regula IIId with 50 and 135mm lens. The 50 mm lens suffered from the same problem. Aperture blades sticky. The 135mm works but the blades are not "snappy" So I assume they will stick one day sooner or later too.
On the Enna lens the optical elements can easily be removed. They are just screwed in. Then I could clean the aperture mechanism with lighter fluid without the need of disassembling it.
Now I tried the same on the Regula Westron 35mm lens. It is more complicated and I did not find an easy way to remoe the lens element behind the aperture blades. But the front element can be just unscrewed.
From the front I could apply a little lighter fluid and it looks promising.
Now I have the Super Automatic and a IIId. Shutters on both work fine. The lightmeter on the IIId is dead but the one on the Super Automatic works.
I hope I can shoot a roll of film soon. I will use the Super Automatic because it has markings for the 135mm lens in the view finder. For 35mm I will use an external finder from my Kiev.
I'm really interested in the results because the lenses seem to be simple layout.
Hannes
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Post by hannes on Apr 10, 2017 14:24:56 GMT -5
Here they are. Finally all 3 lenses are working again. No sticky aperture blades. Both cameras are working. The light meter of the IIId is broken. Hannes
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