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Subject: [OM] Re: On Re-using Our Beloved Zuikos For Digital
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:05:17 -0800
>From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
>
>none of my auto-diaphram Zuikos will stay locked down at the
>taking aperture (like the old preset apertures did).
>
>To use it at anything other than full aperture, one would have to devise
>some kind of arrangement to hold down the aperture preview lever, like a
>water hose clamp, without ruining the lens, right?

WARNING: not for people who still have all their fingers! :-)

Get a bit of 2" PVC pipe. Schedule 80 is thicker than low-pressure pipe, and 
will be springier.

On a table saw, slice off about 1/4" section. File and sand off the burrs. Cut 
a section out of the ring that is about the length of the DOF button. Slip the 
ring over the lens mount before mounting the lens.

Rotate the ring so the DOF button is in the slit to focus, lift the ring and 
plop it on top of the DOF button to stop down.

Bicycle trouser-cuff protectors made of springy steel also work well.

(I've done a lot of reversed-lens photography... :-)

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