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Re: Sputnik at f32?


  • From: erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Erker)
  • Subject: Re: Sputnik at f32?
  • Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:32:20 -0600

>>   Any chance of modifying the Sputnik aperture
>> stop to get f32?  Perhaps that would improve
>> those bad-lensed Sputniks.

>Some already do (though unmarked). Les Gehman is on vacation
>so he probably won't chime in until later, but he told me his
>goes to slightly beyond f/32.
>
>We tried 2 or 3 that I had at the NSA table, and they went
>--just barely-- beyond f/22.  It's certainly possible
>that they could be modified. Les reports that he uses
>that regularly on his.

  Cool. I know mine stops at f22. I'll have
to take a look at it and see where the
f-stop stop is :)

Thanks - Greg