Some days it just doesn't pay to get oout of bed.

Eric Rose · Mar 7, 2012

Was working on my Nikkor 50mm f1.4 non AI lens today to make it into an AI lens so I can use it on my F5 and D700. Well everything was going just swimmingly until I went to put it back together. Then I found I had cut out the wrong side of the ring! Duh. Oh well can still mill out the correct side tomorrow just won't look as pretty. Jeez!!!

fstop · Mar 7, 2012

Eric Rose said:
Was working on my Nikkor 50mm f1.4 non AI lens today to make it into an AI lens so I can use it on my F5 and D700. Well everything was going just swimmingly until I went to put it back together. Then I found I had cut out the wrong side of the ring! Duh. Oh well can still mill out the correct side tomorrow just won't look as pretty. Jeez!!!

brucemuir · Mar 7, 2012

You could pick up another ring but I guess that would defeat your original purpose of diy

Eric Rose · Mar 7, 2012

I can just carve out the proper side and it will work fine. I hacked up the side with the painted f stop numbers nearest. It's not like I have never converted one of these lenses before, just had other things on my mind. Have to remember the adage measure twice, cut once.

Leigh B · Mar 9, 2012

You need to give this a positive spin, like the PR folks in Washington do with f-ups:

Just say that you milled the right end, and don't elaborate.

- Leigh

snay1345 · Mar 9, 2012

I have never taken a lens apart to get it to mount. I just keep the rear cover on a dremel the ring. I can convert a lens in about 3 minutes now. There is no need to take everything apart if you are not doing a proper conversion.

Steve Smith · Mar 9, 2012

Call it a practice cut!

Steve.

benjiboy · Mar 9, 2012

I take a leaf out of Mark Twain's book and look in the obituary column of the local paper every morning before I get up

Eric Rose · Mar 9, 2012

snay1345 said:
I have never taken a lens apart to get it to mount. I just keep the rear cover on a dremel the ring. I can convert a lens in about 3 minutes now. There is no need to take everything apart if you are not doing a proper conversion.

I thought of that but decided I didn't want to get all the micro filings into the lens.

Leigh B · Mar 9, 2012

Eric Rose said:
I thought of that but decided I didn't want to get all the micro filings into the lens.

Wise decision. Those little metal pieces can do a lot of damage.

- Leigh

Some days it just doesn't pay to get oout of bed.

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