Recent content by Martin Konrad

If anyone has a broken GX680 I am happy to buy it of you, only need the front plate to make a lens mount!

Thanks for your response! I got an 80mm today, so effectively there are two levers, one for aperture another to stop down. So all I have to do is blocking the stop down lever. I probably won't attempt any lens surgery, I am worried the plastic housing holds the lever mechanism in place, I might...

so do I understand that right, the lever next to the lens operates the aperture but needs power supplied by the camera? In that case there would be a chance to make a lens board with a battery to supply power via the contacts.

I read through all 20+ pages of the Makiflex thread yesterday regarding the GX680 lens conversions. I was hoping the lever next to the lens was a manual aperture lever which would have been a lot easier... Waiting for the first lens to show up to see what can be done but sourcing Seiko shutters...

Thanks!!!

hello, I just discovered this forum via a search as I try to convert GX680 lenses to Arca Swiss. I have seen the images Nokton48 posted, thats very close to what I want to do. If you could tell me a bit mare about the conversions I would be very grateful. Do I need to add the shutters for...