It won't drop in without modifications. The Mirror Box is flush to the
lens mount.
But it is possible that it's a drop-in mod after trimming the box. It
depends on just where the commonality with the older mirror box is. If
it's at the moulding level, it's trivial, if the resemblance is due to
using a modified version of the design with a new mould, it could be
significantly less trivial.
-Adam
P. J. Alling wrote:
Which means that the lever should just drop in. I hadn't though about
it before but even the mirror looks the same. Only things that really
look different are the size of the shutter, the focusing screen and
the lack of power zoom connections.
Adam Maas wrote:
It may be the same part, just trimmed in the ZX-5n, but I'd suspect
the similarities simply come from the design side "take this design,
make it flush to the mount". No reason to waste cycles redesigning
the part which doesn't need it.
-Adam
P. J. Alling wrote:
The mirror box is molded plastic. Compare it to the mirror box in a
the zx5n it even has the same channels.
Adam Maas wrote:
I just took a peek at the lens mount/mirror box on my D. The mirror
box assembly currently precludes doing this mod without a
redesigned mirror box. The current design offers no way for the
coupler to pass through, even if cut away, there's not enough
clearance by the looks of things. The mount ring itself is
compatible though. It looks like the entire right-hand side of the
mirror box would need a redesign to allow for the addition of the
coupling.
From this, I'd suspect that the only chance of adding this
functionality would be in a new camera.
-Adam
