Submitted by florit on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 19:21
I recently acquired a 'new' (new to me) Minolta 35-135mm Zoom 3.5-4.5f with 1:4 Macro mode at 135mm. Unfortunately, I did not realize the aperture iris was not closing properly, in fact, for a bit I thought it was straight stuck open. With some help (read: more force than it should) I could get the iris to open and close by pushing on the aperture pin.
I did some research online regarding this lens, but found very little on it, and even less on repair guides. Getting it serviced was also a non-starter because the cost would be much higher than getting another lens. With some trepidation, I decided to do some exploratory surgery on the lens to see if the cause was something simple and fixable or complicated.
