Ben Rubinstein
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I'll try...Ben
Can you take a picture of the bent adapter so we can give you suggestion to fix it and be able to sell it to compensate your lost?
Best Wishes,
-Son
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I'll try...Ben
Can you take a picture of the bent adapter so we can give you suggestion to fix it and be able to sell it to compensate your lost?
Best Wishes,
-Son
It depends on the adapter so I suggest you post a pic of it looking directly onto the back of the lens. Many of them have a thin spring that holds the adapter in place by engaging into a notch on the lens mount. You need to use your nail or a screwdriver to hold it open as you start to rotate.Speaking of adaptors, I have a single Cameraquest C/Y to Canon adaptor currently living on a Zeiss 21. I would like to move it to a Zeiss 28 to check this lens, but I can't figure out how to remove it! I've poked at likely spots, but I'm about to damage the thing if I push any harder. Does anyone have advice (or a picture) of where and in what direction to push?
Thanks,
Matt
Just saw this. Ugh, painful. But at least it wasn't the lens that was damaged.Got the new adaptor, it was the adaptor all right, the lens is fine now.
I'm guessing that it's the (now slightly mangled) bit at 3 o'clock. I was unable to budge it in any direction with finger nail or screwdriver. I hope I've been pressing on the wrong spot! It's not that teensy hex screw, is it?It depends on the adapter so I suggest you post a pic of it looking directly onto the back of the lens. Many of them have a thin spring that holds the adapter in place by engaging into a notch on the lens mount. You need to use your nail or a screwdriver to hold it open as you start to rotate.
If this isn't obvious post a pic.
I'm not keeping the lens in the end. It's good but I realise that I'm looking for perfect corners and it's not quite there. I need the lens for commercial work not artistic. Thinking of either the Zeiss, the nikon 14-24 or waiting for the sony wide angle for E mount and hoping it's good. It's a shame it cost me two adaptors to find this out but the other one is pretty much brand new, only mounted once. I'm hoping not to lose too much money selling the lens and adaptor.Just saw this. Ugh, painful. But at least it wasn't the lens that was damaged.
These mount adapters are made of light metal and are very precisely machined. Dropping them, even if the dent looks small, can deform them and it's *very* difficult to restore them to the proper shape. The same thing happened to me with a very expensive B+W type 87C infrared filter. It dropped only a foot or so onto a hard surface, deformed the mount, and now I can neither take the filter element out or fit it to a lens. So goes another $100+ ...
I'll be interested to hear how that lens works out for you. I'm debating something like that or the Elmarit-R 19mm ... expensive things ...
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