MS-optics - Perar - fault?

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Advice from Will van Manen re should I get it coded:-

 

On which digital M will you be using the lens?

For use on the M240 it’s no problem, for the M8/M9 the bayonet is a little bit to small (sensor is slightly bigger), and it would need modification.

 

My decision - I won't bother, then.

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Update - Here is the report from Will

 

The rangefinder steering was loose and needed to be adjusted. It also did not have a fixing screw; they used glue. That’s waiting for trouble.

So made a screw thread, adjusted it and secured it with a set screw.

It’s a very good lens by the way.

 

 

So the lens has now been modified with - I imagine - a grub screw. I'm no lens technician, but I was surprised to find that there was no locking device and that there only seemed to be glue.

They are nice lenses - but if Will can modify with a locking grub screw, then it could have been done by the maker and I am a bit disappointed that this is not part of the original design.

 

Hopefully this thread is useful to others who own or who are going to own an MS-Optical lens.

I shall let the maker know.

 

By the way, the work has been completed after only 4 days and Will van Manen will be sending the lens back after Christmas.

Very impressive.

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Here is a final update.

The lens arrived back from Will a week ago. Perfectly repaired - and modified.

Works beautifully.

I would have had it a week earlier had it not been for Christmas and New Year.

 

The Ms Optical 35mm and 28mm lenses really must be the ultimate walk around/hiking lenses for daylight use (please start off-topic arguments about this on a new thread - )

 

So here is my take. Super lenses. Lots of fun. Extremely portable - very unobtrusive. I bet the 35 (at least) works great on the tiny A7®.

 

Very nicely constructed and solid feeling lens - except for the fact that the steering ring is glued into place. I really don't why the maker - who is a craftsman engineer, was happy with that.

They are all like that - 28mm and 35mm. I don't know about the 50mm. I don't have one.

If you get one, it will probably be fine - but if you have to have it serviced or calibrated - then send it to Will van Manen and ask him to modify it at the same time. It isn't expensive and he is very quick. I am quite sure that the mod will add to the resale value of the lens as well.

 

You can see the tiny grub-screw in the picture - and it really is very very tiny. You can see that Will has drilled an opencast threaded channel in the side of the shell and the screw is anchored in the hole at the end of it.

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