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Reddit mentions of Neewer Professional Flat & pointed Tips DSLR Camera Lens Spanner Wrench Repairing Opening Tool for Most Cameras
Sentiment score: 3
Reddit mentions: 4
We found 4 Reddit mentions of Neewer Professional Flat & pointed Tips DSLR Camera Lens Spanner Wrench Repairing Opening Tool for Most Cameras. Here are the top ones.
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- Professional camera lens repair opening tool
- 6 screw holes, 4-screw-locking design makes the cross bar more flexible for adjustment.
- Made of high quality antimagnetic stainless steel nice looking and durable.
- Extended head design is available for some two lens graphics camera (Depends on the avatar sizes of your TLR cameras)
Features:
Specs:
| Height | 1.181102361 Inches |
| Length | 6.5748031429 Inches |
| Release date | August 2014 |
| Weight | 0.38375 Pounds |
| Width | 4.724409444 Inches |
If you're talking about this:
https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Professional-pointed-Spanner-Repairing/dp/B00J5F6O92
I use that exact one all the time and it is great. I have repaired several old "junker" cameras that basically just needed to have the leaf shutter removed and flushed out with some solvent to get them working like new again.
Are you talking fungus? Fungus looks like sort of spidery fibery stuff. Fungus can eventually etch the lens coatings, when that happens the lens is toast. It's usually inside the lens though, not on the front surface. If it looks like mold and is on the front, it's likely dirt.
If it hasn't etched the coatings, I've had good luck with hydrogen peroxide on a q-tip followed by a good lens cleaning (I use 99% isopropyl) and a final polish with a microfiber. But you may have to get into the lens system to do that (the "lens" is usually a collection of 3-6 separate glass elements with spaces between them). Usually you need a spanner wrench to get it all apart.
If you don't want to tear it all down, carefully clean the elements you can get to and shoot a test roll - it takes a lot of stuff to really jack up a lens.
I use this one and it works great.
So, if you're on a tight budget I would suggest trying the Nikon manual focus lenses. I had the 50, 35, and the 105. They are good lenses but I had my issues with them. They focus backwards, to go to infinity you rotate the focus ring the opposite way of nearly every other lens. They also have a distinct bokeh, it's not bad, just not my taste. They are cheap and really easy to come by.
To declick lenses you should only need a good set of precision set of screwdrivers. I have these
You can look up declicking specific lenses on Google.
I also purchased [this](Neewer Professional Flat & pointhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J5F6O92/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_kPn1xbT6E3FVK) so I could take off the front element of the lens if it needed cleaning. Totally not necessary for cine modding but fun to take apart lenses.
You can buy focus gears from all kinds of places online. There are plenty of choices and prices. I buy mine from followfocus gears.com they aren't cheap, but they are seamless, and are 3D printed for specific lenses. They fit perfectly.
For the adapters, I've had some good luck with fotodiox in the past. They are relatively cheap. Sometimes they don't fit as snuggly as they should and that is a problem. With my 105mm when I would touch the lens to focus the lens would physically move side to side and the image would shift. Not good for video. For my contax set I purchase Leitax adapters that actually screw on the the existing mount so they can't shift at all.
For you I suggest you getting a cheap 50mm and try it out. You don't need to buy the gears or declick right away. Just get a lens and an adapter and see how you like it. Stay away from Canon FD lenses as you need an adapter with a glass element in it to focus to infinity. It's not worth the hassle and hard to find a good quality adapter with out breaking the bank.