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Surgery on the Voigtlander 15mm III


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An article dedicated to those who wished that Voigtlander made the Super Wide-Heliar 15mm without a built-in lens hood... :D

 

 

https://vieribottazzini.com/2016/08/surgery-voigtlander-super-wide-heliar-15mm-iii.html

 

Enjoy! Best,

 

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Another person drilled a small hole in the vertical lens shade 'leaf', threaded it and put a tiny thumbscrew in it. That would retain a rimless glass filter. I do not  remember the size, but I could measure mine.

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I love my Heliar III but, because I am mechanically challenged, I'd never attempt this!  :o However I congratlate you on your success...

 

Thank you rafikiphoto, it was a bit scary to put a saw to it, but it turned out well :D

 

Another person drilled a small hole in the vertical lens shade 'leaf', threaded it and put a tiny thumbscrew in it. That would retain a rimless glass filter. I do not  remember the size, but I could measure mine.

 

pico, the 15mm has a filter thread already, so I don't see why you would go all that trouble to use a round filter with it - the reason I did the hack was to be able to use square filters with it :D

 

Not a bad job at all.

A milling machine would have done it more cleanly, if you happened to have one of those around... ;-)

 

I actually do, one came with the house when I moved, it actually is in perfect working shape but I never used and felt bad about trying it first on the 15mm ;) inexperience with the tool aside, for some reasons I preferred to do the cutting and filing manually, I thought less could go wrong and less vibrations on the lens, but you definitely have a point there.

 

I couldn't bear to look.

 

jrp, the patient survived and it's in much better shape than before (for my use, at least!) :D

 

I will probably never buy any used gear from you...  :)

 

 

LOL :D JorisV, you'd better ask for pictures of the gear! :D Seriously, I always treat my gear very well, this is the first time I attempt anything like this - however, I felt it was worth it, the 15mm is such a good lens with what to me is a huge design flaw (its built-in lens hood), so I thought I'd give it a try... ;)

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pico, the 15mm has a filter thread already, so I don't see why you would go all that trouble to use a round filter with it - the reason I did the hack was to be able to use square filters with it

I was talking about version 1.

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