On the subject of going full engineering nerd, my brain keeps coming back to how to make one of these as a “real product”. I really ought to be wasting my time in a more productive manner. Some of y’all might be amused by the thought experiment.
I’ve been doing more tweaking on the design ideas. The Pentax 645 mount has a diameter of about 61mm. That means that you could make plates with p645 mounting flanges, then make Pentax K-mount back caps that have 645 lens side flanges on them that would lock into the plates. You could also make back caps that fit other lens mounts, Nikon etc. that also mounted into the plates. I’m beginning to realize that you would want the mounting plates to be of different sizes and hole spacing depending on the diameter of the lenses and sunshades. Probably half inch increments from 2.5”-4.5”. You might also want some sort of way of elevating the lenses, maybe the equivalent of extension tubes, maybe something that is just a storage area under the squares (store filters?). There would also be a need for spacer plates to make up the difference when having mounting plates of different sizes adjacent to each other. It would ultimately also need ways of holding lenses on their sides, and ideally ways of making them pretty much drop ins for pelican cases. -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
