geotrupede Posted February 9 Share #1  Posted February 9 Advertisement (gone after registration) I love them. Always looking for the smaller of the smallest, they are. They are soft and weird but closed down perform well and for flash photography are an amazing and a portable companion. M11 plus a 24 or a 28 or a 36 can fit in the pocket of a coat... flash in the other. The 50 is a little bigger, but that goes in the chest pockets 😉 Above all there is one thing, not mentioned so often that makes these special. One can disassemble and reassemble and fix issues without having to ask anyone, with a minimum experience in lens design. Everything is screwed together in intuitive ways.  I once crashed the 28 on a door, desperate, I brought it to a photo repair centre. $$$ All good. But most recently the issue resurfaced, and I decided to give it a go. I could take it all apart, reassemble and also adjust the rangefinder alignment on the lens by twisting the rear profile to the correct position...  I should also mentioned that the 50 had a lens slightly displaced, once again few twists and all done. And so the 24, with the focusing ring detaching, that I fixed with a new screw (from a voigtlander). It works like a charm. What a wonderful piece of hand made design, allowing to take pictures but also to tune/detune/adjust and repair the lens at home... amazing stuff, which feels really tailored, personalised, unique. Thank you MS for the fantastic kit! G> PS An example from the 28 1.7 with flash https://www.instagram.com/p/DFzyhTvsI1A/    1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ecar Posted February 9 Share #2  Posted February 9 I have a love-hate relationship with MS lenses. Size, weight and unique rendering fuel the love - while ergonomics, calibration and construction are responsible for the hate. It would seem that on some (but not all) of his lenses, Miyazaki resorts to glue to keep everything together. Unlike you, I'm too ham-fisted to consider fixing lenses myself, so this is based on feedback from 2 highly-regarded technicians who worked on a few of my MS lenses. Said technicians would then usually add a couple of grub screws in strategic locations - and shake their heads wondering why Miyazaki didn't do so in the first place... That being said, I wish I had your repair skills. It would have saved me $$$$ 😉 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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