anyone tried this at all?
I've seen a listing with old Zeiss bodies with lenses but no prisms and missing a number of mechanical components. Now I've a couple old JPY era and Zenith's that the prisms may fit but other mechanical parts may not be useable. So am wondering if swapping the Zeiss lenses into some of them would be a worthwhile experiment.
The lenses on these older JPY era and Zenith's are coated and in good order tho I believe these are BK7 prisms rather than BaK4 which may detract on performance if I was able to rebuild into the Zeiss bodies. For sure obtaining the parts needed to refurbish the old Zeiss won't be easy and funds are very limited at the moment.
I guess I'm more thinking out loud but would appreciate any feedback from the experienced "techs" before I go spending when I shouldn't
I've seen a listing with old Zeiss bodies with lenses but no prisms and missing a number of mechanical components. Now I've a couple old JPY era and Zenith's that the prisms may fit but other mechanical parts may not be useable. So am wondering if swapping the Zeiss lenses into some of them would be a worthwhile experiment.
The lenses on these older JPY era and Zenith's are coated and in good order tho I believe these are BK7 prisms rather than BaK4 which may detract on performance if I was able to rebuild into the Zeiss bodies. For sure obtaining the parts needed to refurbish the old Zeiss won't be easy and funds are very limited at the moment.
I guess I'm more thinking out loud but would appreciate any feedback from the experienced "techs" before I go spending when I shouldn't