juraj_v
Member
Hello everyone, I'm a camera-nerd guy(and long time RFF reader) living in Slovakia, and just want to share some of my DIY projects.
This is the 6 element F.Zuiko 40/1.7 adapted for Fuji. The donor body was an Olympus 35DC with dead electronics. It was a lot of work, but it takes great pics and looks beautifully on my good old X-E1.
The hardest part was to make a working aperture, because OLY 35DC is auto-everything camera so there was no aperture ring. I used the ISO dial, which is on the front just behind the filter ring, and linked it to the shutter mechanism with a screw and a little metal part. The back/mount side of the lens is made from Fuji x - LTM adapter, which I precisely sanded down to achieve the infinity. For putting the parts together I used very strong steel epoxy, then painted it to black.
Here are some sample shots. As expected, it's a little soft wide open, but with beautiful character and stopped down a bit it becomes very sharp and contrasty. As on all fixed-lens rf cameras, focusing throw is very short, but focus peaking/magnification helps a lot so it's totally usable... Maybe someone gets inspired 🙂
This is the 6 element F.Zuiko 40/1.7 adapted for Fuji. The donor body was an Olympus 35DC with dead electronics. It was a lot of work, but it takes great pics and looks beautifully on my good old X-E1.
The hardest part was to make a working aperture, because OLY 35DC is auto-everything camera so there was no aperture ring. I used the ISO dial, which is on the front just behind the filter ring, and linked it to the shutter mechanism with a screw and a little metal part. The back/mount side of the lens is made from Fuji x - LTM adapter, which I precisely sanded down to achieve the infinity. For putting the parts together I used very strong steel epoxy, then painted it to black.
Here are some sample shots. As expected, it's a little soft wide open, but with beautiful character and stopped down a bit it becomes very sharp and contrasty. As on all fixed-lens rf cameras, focusing throw is very short, but focus peaking/magnification helps a lot so it's totally usable... Maybe someone gets inspired 🙂
