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     Henry Moderator Username: Henry Post Number: 24 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A |
Opps Werner, I didn't read your fist post until reading and answering your second post. I thought you were talking about, say, turning a Kiron Pentax mount into an Olympus mount, as I did a couple years ago combining two Kirons. What you are asking about is swapping mounts on dissimilar brand lenses. I have actually done this kind of lens hacking several times. Mostly I've taken Pentax screw mounts off 3rd party lenses with nasty optics and put then on Exakta mount lenses with great glass. Making very nice (and very cheap) glass for my Spotmatics. The trick is getting the back focus distances the same. Being old Exakta mount lenses there were no aperture pins to fool with. You'll be doing stop down metering on your Minolta also. You have a list of back focus distances I trust? |