> It is good you remind people of that baffle. It was not a pleasant > experience when I first mounted the 35-85 on the LX, I couldn`t > get it back off without a little force. It ever so slightly bent > that upper mirror box metal. After that though, all the VS1`s I > have with the baffle mount and unmount easily. It must be less > than a mm that is needed to file off.
I've taken most of the flange off several ol' VS1 lenses. Sometimes I've removed the K-mount from the lens first, and sometimes I've performed the "circumcision" (so to speak - <g>) while the K-mount was still on the lens. Of course, careful masking is needed in either case, to keep those pesky aluminum filings out of where they shouldn't ought to be... I do have a couple of relevant "surgery photos" of the procedure being performed on a couple of VS1 35-85/2.8's (shot, appropriately enough, with a VS1 90-180/4.5 Flat Field Zoom, which was originally designed by Vivitar for surgical photography - <g>) on an embarrassingly primitive VS1 35-85/2.8 page (<sheepish grin>) at http://www.cetussoft.com/pentax/v358528/ . Fred
