Re: Sputnik at f32?

[Joel Alpers <joel.alpers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Erker wrote:
> 
> Sam or any one else who's disassembled a Spud shutter:
> 
>   Any chance of modifying the Sputnik aperture
> stop to get f32?  Perhaps that would improve
> those bad-lensed Sputniks.
> 
> Greg

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.

Joel.