Nice. I might borrow the idea. One issue I see is spacing. Assume I have 5 lenses of different diameter; four mounted on the “rail” in the bag, one on the camera. Camera lens comes off, new one from the bag goes on. Used lens goes into the bag IFF the gap left is large enough… A way around this would be to hove one spot for each lens, with the disadvantage that you have one lens on camera, x in the bag, and one empty slot in the bag. But I can see this having real potential. You could have 2-3 different lens-board inserts for your bag and choose the one that accommodates the lenses you’ll be using on a given occasion.
A different trick I picked up here many years ago. Take two rear lens caps, epoxy them together. Once the joint is dry, I put a strip of electrical tape or book binding tape around the joint to stabilize it against the torque from mounting/dismounting lenses. Have never had a set come apart. The point of this is of course that you can put two short lenses into the space for a longer lens without them banging into one another. stan > On Mar 23, 2016, at 6:40 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > A few nights ago, Nicole sent me a link to this gadget, which basically works > as a socket rail for lenses: > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1338372981/lensracks-quick-change-camera-gear-storage-system/description > > Unfortunately, they don't support Pentax lenses. But that did give me an > idea for carrying my lenses. I've been using one of these Matin bags in the > top of my camera bag to carry several of my primes: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/25894521892/in/album-72157666133893582/ > > I made a quick and dirty prototype using some of the less than wonderful > cheap back caps (they say PK on them) > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/25894503112/in/album-72157666133893582/ > > Which allows me to carry the lenses in my bag like so: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/25894519362/in/album-72157666133893582/ > > If it seems promising, I'll pick up some of the fotodiox lens caps and make a > better unit, probably bolting the lens caps down to whatever I use for a base > rather than just glueing them down. > > If I had a 3-d printer, it would be tempting to make a rail with the mounts > for the three lenses based on this design: > http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:184905 > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
