Here he is. http://brendemuehl.net/images/frank/frank1.jpg
A shot taken with Frank. f2, perhaps slightly overexposed. http://brendemuehl.net/images/frank/berry.jpg The center. http://brendemuehl.net/images/frank/center.jpg This was pretty simple because the Minolta mount on this lens was in 2 pieces. Behind the camera mount is another support ring. Both the ring and the K mount had a rib which had to be milled off. Even so, the ring does need to be another 1mm thinner for infinity focus. Minolta used 8 screws on the lens mount. 4 attached the mount to the support ring and 4 went through the support ring to the lens body. I left out the holes for the 4 into the ring and just used the 4 longer ones that went through to the lens body. That's enough for this weight of lens. It might be easier to have a pro with a mill do the actual work on the mount and ring. Perhaps I will hire an engineer to finish it. Also, put a hold for the mounting screw near the red dot. That allowed me to attach to the lens body close to the center of the aperture scale for near-proper alignment. Still, it "works" for close stuff. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://kerygmainstitute.org "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
