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Re: [OM] "Stop down adapter" anyone?

Subject: Re: [OM] "Stop down adapter" anyone?
From: "Paul D. Farrar" <farrar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:56:38 -0500
At 06:27 PM 9/19/01 +0100, you wrote:
>There is a posting on this list from a few years ago where someone claimed
>that Kenko made a "Stop Down Adapter" which allows you to stop down a
>reversed OM lens.  I haven't been able to track anything down and It seems
>it probably wouldn't have been Kenko anyway.
>
>Anyone have any ideas either whether such a device is available or else
>other ways of getting round the problem (short of donating a couple of
>limbs to buy an Olympus bellows)?      Holding in the depth of field
>preview button isn't a very good solution for long exposures at high mag.
>
>Cheers 
>
>David Lee
>dlee_malvern@xxxxxxxxxxx


I have a Kiron one that is part of a reverse adaptor set. (They called it 
"Reverse Mate") I don't know if they were available separately from Kiron, 
or anybody else. Get a manual extension tube. Then you can use it both as an 
extension tube and a "stopper down".

Paul


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