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The part in contact with the LENS threads is added with a plastic jacket, which can prevent to damage the LENS threads during use.
This tool is only suitable for repairing lens dents.
Accomodate with all filter ring sizes from 27mm to 130mm Professional precision manufacture for top quality and precise adjustments.
Double sided (one side for smaller lenses,other side for larger) .
Material:Black hard-anodized aluminum & Silver Stainless Steel
Weight:Approx. 266g
Package Included:
Lens Repair Tool X1
(Lens not Included)
Andrew L.
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024
Follow the online videos that show how to start NEXT to the dent NOT DIRECTLY ON the dent. Then work carefully through the dent and expand the tool a little at a time. Go SLOW. I did this using that method and repaired a vintage lens which had been fully flattened on one side by a fall onto cement sidewalk. It’s now functionally 10/10, and cosmetically 8/10. Awesome tool!
spgd01
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
The concept works if you go slow. However the one I ordered has no threads to help straighten out dented threads. My threads where dented down toward the glass as well as in. I needed threads to help straighten that out. On a second lens I had a filter on, I needed threads to grip the filter so I could unscrew the damaged filter.This one only had a plastic cover to help protect the threads from being bent when you use it. That won't help you straighten threads that are bent down. It they are only bent in I am sure this would work.I returned this and purchased another brand with threads. The vice with threads did work to remove the filter and straighten the threads.
Joseph S. Wisniewski
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2024
I bought this mostly to deal with two enlarger lenses with bent filter threads. I use them reversed on a bellows for macro and product photography, and one was hard to use, the other impossible. In under two minutes each they threaded on slicker than snot off a doorknob (yes, "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" is stuck in my head from like 40 years ago).I used it on the rest of the enlarger lens flock, and now all 8 of them thread on like they were new. Used it on several older "regular" photographic lenses, too, and again, everything is smooth and easy now.Watch a YouTube video before using it. You want to snug it up, expand a bit without torquing the heck out of it, loosen it a little, turn it 10-20 degrees, expand it again, and go around the whole lens once or twice. Don't just part it on your dent and crank it hard: you'll take the threads out of round and leave your lens even harder to thread filters onto than it started out.
a
Reviewed in Japan on October 15, 2023
普通に使えます。ちなみに届いた商品はフィルターに対応するネジ溝がありませんでした。アマゾン掲載品で他にも同じような出品がありますが、そちらは写真を見る限りネジ溝が付いています。ネジ溝があるほうがいいのか、ないほうがいいのかは私にも分からないのですが、ネジ溝がなくても使用することはできました。
H to the izzo
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2023
Don't try to bend your lens back in place in one swoop. This tool definitely works, but you need to gently expand it little by little. I DO NOT recommend the twisting/rotating method. Instead, expand the metal, retract, manually rotate a tiny degree, and repeat until satisfied. The rotating method will DEFINITELY leave you with unsatisfactory results and may damage your lens.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2021
Dropped my Canon 24-70mm USM bending both the filter and the lens filter ring. Hoped it might be just the filter, so I used the tool to straighten the filter. It still would not come off so I used a pair of wire cutters to remove the filter. (Picture shows the straightened 77mm filter with bent filter ring before filter removal.)Note that when using this tool on the lens, you must have the threads aligned and the gap between the tool and the top of the lens filter ring the same on both sides of the tool when viewed from the side of the lens. This is relatively easy to do if you set the tool on the metal ledge of the lens just below the threads. I tried the method indicated by some commenters to offset the tool slightly from the dent, lightly tighten the tool, then rotate the tool across the dent. While this may work for slight dents, the one I had was so acute that this method didn't get me anywhere, as the tool would not rotate across the dent at all. So I placed the tool directly on the dent, and over a period of a couple of hours I would repeatedly tighten the tool fairly tight, let it set for 15-20 min, then loosen and observe the curvature around the dent. I really recommend having a new filter available to set on the lens for determining when you have gone far enough. Once the dent was removed, I noticed that while the filter fit the lens on the diagonal line passing through the dent and the center of the lens at 77mm, the line perpendicular to it was only around 75mm. So I had turned the circular filter ring into a slight oval. The solution was to place the tool perpendicular (90 degrees) to its position when removing the dent. I used about half the torque that I used to straighten the dent to gradually (as indicated above) turn the oval back into a 77mm circle. Check the new filter fit by trying to install it after each tightening repetition, however before doing so, be sure to remove any metallic particles from the filter threads and check thread integrity in the dented area as this will affect the ease of filter installation.
Pablo
Reviewed in Spain on December 31, 2020
Lo compré con miedo por haber leído malas reviews, pero a mi me ha servido, he conseguido arreglar la rosca de un objetivo que tenía un poco hundida. No ha quedado igual que nueva, cuesta un poco roscarle el filtro, pero desde luego mucho mejor que como estaba antes.Lo he usado con mucho cuidado y ha funcionado!
Martin P Benoit
Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2019
I fixed a dozen of lenses with it.It has to be used carefully because it is very powerfull and can damage a lens
Mattem
Reviewed in Italy on December 6, 2019
Mi era caduto l’obbiettivo con montato un anello adattatore, quest’ultimo si è piegato e non riuscivo piu in nessun modo a toglierlo. Con questo strumento ci sono voluti 2 minuti, è bastato allargare di poco l’anello piegato e subito si è svitato.
Brian
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2019
This unit is waaaaaay better built than the typical crappy silver-toned ones sold for similar prices.The main downside I have found is that when not tightened into a lens ring, the vise halves slide freely, risking a ding in your front element if you are not careful when placing them. Otherwise, these are as good as you are going to find without spending a lot more money.
michel crambuer
Reviewed in France on May 13, 2018
J'avais déjà acheté ce type d'outil, mais plus petit es trop faible il ne servait à rien. Celui ci est efficace et assez puissant. Il a déjà redonné une forme (presque) parfaite à une Nikkor.
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