5 Jul
2011
5 Jul
'11
1:40 p.m.
My personal preference is to adapt to M39 and use an
enlarger lens (flat
If you can conmvice the cmaera to use a 'dumb' lens (no automation) and
an get an adapter to a screw mount, things become a lot simpler.
One great advantge of screw mounts, at least for me, is that they are a
lot easier to make (simple thread cutting) than bayonet mounts. So you
can make up your own adapters.
field). With M39 lens and Exakta mount bellows, I
have to adapt.
If that's the genuine Exakta Large bellows, keep it unmodified and find a
Varex :-). If it's a 3rd party thing, you'll often find that the lens and
camera flanges are separate parts fixed to the standards with 4 screws.
It's easy to repalce them with the ones you want.
-tony