Hi, I told you all about my "new" Soligor zoom last night. Took her out with the MX this morning, and it causes the mirror to hang up. "Crap", thinks I. "Don't tell me the MX is up to it's old tricks again!" Nope. Put the 50mm back on when I got home, and all's well with the MX (whew).
Put the zoom on the SV (for which I finally bought batteries for today, and it seems to work, although I haven't had a chance to shoot any film yet), and it works fine. So, worse comes to worse, I've got a cheap ($20) zoom to go with the cheap ($20) SV I got on eBay. But here's my real question. Looking at the mounting end of the zoom, the flange that protects the diaphragm lever is much longer on the zoom than it is on my other two k-mount lenses. It looks to be the same depth, but it's wider along the arc described by the diaphragm lever, if you know what I mean. I'm guessing that it could be filed down a bit to give the mirror some clearance. I'm always loathe to try such remedies myself, but hey, for what I paid for the lens, I don't have that much to lose. Anyone else come across such a dilemma? If so, what do you think of my proposed solution? Any thoughts would be appreciated. thanks, frank -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
