Lubi Hell

[Tom Deering <tdeering@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>>Thanks all.  I'm eager to design a new camera since I ruined the twinned
>>Lubitels.  There's all that unused 120 film in the fridge.  :^)
>
>  What happened to the Lubi's? The focusing problem?

Yup, I seem to have botched things when I disassembled the lenses.  In his
note, he calls this a "tough problem".  If John thinks it's tough, then I'm
cooked.

John Bercovitz said:

>Oooh, tough problem, Tom.  I don't envy you.  I think
>what may be going on could be that the Lubitel uses
>triplets like the Sputnik does.  If that is the case, they
>are front-cell focussers.  This gives them two degrees of
>freedom which is one more than I would wish on anyone.
>One degree of freedom is where the back of the lens is
>relative to the case and the other is where the front cell
>is relative to the rear cell.