So I have been picking up some inexpensive lenses to help me identify what I enjoy most about photography, and what sorts of features I want in a lens, before I buy more modern lenses with the much higher price tags. My question pertains to the JCPenney 1:2.8 135mm that arrived in the mail today, for $15 from eBay.
When looking through the lens, there doesn't appear to be a diaphragm to regulate the aperture... I can rotate the aperture ring from 2.8 all the way to 22, but nothing seems to change inside the lens.
View through the lens, at what should be the smallest aperture setting (largest number, 22):
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/353/19447704154_d637a529b9_k.jpg
It was only $15, I can get it to take some nice pictures, and I've recommissioned the nice lens cap it came with for a new life with my new favorite lens (that also arrived today), so I'm not too worried about getting it fixed or anything. (Although if this is something that
I could fix, rather than paying someone to do it, I may attempt it at some point).
Mainly I just wanted to make sure that yes, the aperture ring is not functioning correctly, and I'm not crazy. (I'm still new enough to this that it could go either way.
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Sample pictures below, so the lens does work! Mostly.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3785/20044067456_b269c71c67_k.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/413/19883669439_109b7aba69_k.jpg
EDIT: Turned to links due to large file size, don't have the ability to resize them at the moment. Sorry!
Last edited by SolarCat; 07-27-2015 at 07:31 PM.