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i'm not sure there's any advantage to cleaning a bunch of lenses a time.you run the risk of disassembled parts everywhere, which would lead to most of those lenses never going back together again, well thats how it would happen with me anyway ? unless your in a clean room by the time you have one lens back together you'd have to clean the others all over again. what happens if your interrupted ? and have to drop the wife off at the maternity ward, more cleaning and oh dear god where was i up too ? plus having a bunch of lenses to do at once could be a more daunting proposition than originally anticipated and its too late after you have opened a couple. i'm thinking slow and steady and eventually the tortoise will win the race. i know this because i have a canon fd 35-70 sitting on my bench. i believe who ever had it before me did something to it before i had it as the rear cap wouldn't lock on like my other fd's i have. me being adventurous and thinking how hard can it be ? had the screws off it in no time a slight twist and something went sprooiing as it came apart. do you think that thing will go back together before this side off hell freezing over ?. i guess when i am feeling adventurous again i'll have another look at it ? my only consolation is it was a cheap lens so im not too upset/ but i think i learned another lesson

actually this guy (Vladimir rectilux hardcore) has some glass for sale in the classifieds. the thread is however i think the pricing isn't very competitive and you could buy several lenses of ebay for the same pricing. there is no doubt glass is lying around and as is items do get listed from time to time you would just have to be prepared to wait. i feel its easier just to go out and buy another.

no i work for a stone company, we did all the foyers, lifts, everything that was clad in stone. the kitchen sink cutouts and hot plate cutouts and the vanity bowl cutouts and the polishing of the undermount sinks and vanities was all done on a cnc i usually set up two kitchens or 4 vanities at a time. the highrise layout was the same for each floor. so you just doing alot of repetition something machines are great at. the lengths of kitchen bench tops and vanities were oversize by 100 mm and cut to size either at a later stage or on site. hey kaylee i didn't build that... honest, if i did it would have fallen down faster and not as straight ?

the boss bought the cnc for a high rise job that we had started, it was called q1 for awhile it was the tallest residential high rise in australia it literally ran 20-24 hours a day for nearly two years i think. i would load it up in the afternoon, even at night some times start it up and go home. come back the next morning and unload it. it even had a modem built in and was meant to ring a number when it was finished but that aspect never worked. it was pretty damn impressive, a few time it was my fault or another operators fault and occasionally it had its own issues.... i did feel bad when i screwed up, but i am confident that i made him more money than i cost him, i still work there part time whenever their busy i go down and do a couple of days work. they recently added a water jet, so i am keen to go and learn that as i have a couple of ideas for my anamorphic lens project that i want to try out :)

i killed a $250000 cnc machine once, work didn't like paying for the service guy to maintain the machine and he wasn't always as prompt as the boss would have liked. the service guys wife was dying from cancer at the time and he was a genuinely nice guy, i dont hold him responsible for being less than prompt in attendance. i had the aptitude for running it so i was one of three instructed on running it the two others left at some point and i ended up doing repairs as required. when i had an issue that hadn't arisen before i would ring him and he would sort me out over the phone most times. one time i got myself in over my head. this machine was dos based and i inadvertently deleted some files that were linked to the start up if i remember correctly the machine was dead for about a week and it took 3 days for the service guy to reinstall everything and get various things talking to each other again . i wasn't popular for awhile. still we all human mistakes happen the trick is not to have them happen often

well that explains the beard i guess :) do you get a cheaper rate for a whole family ?

that is pretty hard core !! i usually wait till the camera is well out of warranty and others have trod the path before me . i pulled my nikon 950 apart to a similar degree to remove the hot mirror. got it all back together had one tiny little screw left over ? . been considering doing the same thing to my gopro to replace the lens with a less wide angle. still considering the swap, that and other lens acquisitions keep getting in the way. before and after photos from the camera with the hot mirror removed and 720 ir filter i think

i know where your coming from, i did something like that after i first joined i made a comment at the time in the bmp4k forum i think. it seemed innocent enough to me, however even the great john brawley dropped by with a its not cool to go chucking hand grenades around in the forum . which wasn't my intention at all. so i think i learned a lesson or maybe about 3/4 of a lesson. i'm not suggesting that we flame a person to hell at a moments notice, i'm suggesting that a that seems odd !! proceed with caution sort of message be raised. if i inadvertently click on a link that one would think leads to a camera review but ends up at casino portal. then i am happy to post, hey guys this is spam it doesn't link to what you think it is. one person will end up at a wong location but a little warning will stop the rest of us making the same mistake that is all . i also am with ironfilm suspect posts do stand out a bit after your been around awhile but those with english as a second language may miss the subtleties. most times i come in pretty late to a conversation anyway, that might be some of the lesson i learned earlier or my time zone perhaps.

nobody has speculated anything about the ghost in the machine yet. its two words..... magic lantern. after having a canon and then learning about ml and installing it, running with it. if this new camera cant have ml on it then it would have to be one heck of a camera to tempt me to buy it . i feel pretty strongly about canon and ml. canon without ml is like food without sauce, rivers without water, a sky with no stars, you get the idea. if no ml then the force is weak with this one.... besides i have yet to receive the bmp4k. not sure how the bmp4k would react if i rush out and grab another camera to play with straight away ?

ebay is your friend. there's heaps for sale usually. you can get a whole lens for $50 upwards. you might luck out with a partial or damaged lens, i have seen them advertised for less as well. for $100 delivered you could buy a nice lens and have some spare bits for unforeseen circumstances or bits for another project perhaps. you might get lucky here in the forums but i'm unsure how many would have bits lying around, perhaps i'm wrong good luck anyway. i think there are four types of nap lenses the most common being nap 2-3 then a 2-4 2-2 and 1-1 i'm sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong. i think it would be advantageous to know which lens you had, as a lens from one type may not play well with the lens from a different type. maybe their interchangeable i don't know, i'm only speculating aloud

been my experience a couple of times at least. someone from the forum posts a heads up about suspect posts, which i have to thank those people for having such a neighborly watch like attitude. perhaps if everyone in the forum pursues an active approach to announce spammer posts when come across we would deny them or greatly reduce the clicks or whatever their evil machinations are. most people on here don't seem to have much trouble calling a spade a spade or other names at times so i reckon if someone who's pretty regular in the forum calls out a spammer alert i would tend to side with them and not click on links until proven otherwise. most if not all the links i click on are video links that lead to youtube or vimeo camera reviews or the shorts that people make. i don't tend to click on txt links. just my two cents worth. i have seen alot of tompeter adds in the sale section. it seems unnatural to me, one person to sell so much stuff unless he had a shop.since nothing is stated about a shop or being a wheeler and dealer, on principal i have avoided those adds like the plague.

well the el nikor 63 turned up in pretty good time from japan. have to say i like dealing with the japanese. not that i dont like you americans, but your postal service wants to violate me fiscally ? the lens looks immaculate, got a hand written note and a piece of origami no idea how it works or what it does but its the thought that counts ? have ordered a m39 to m42 step up ring and 40.5 to 55mm ring for the front as per tito's review. stay tuned but would it attract a crowd of birds, or are they likely to mistake it for some type of punt gun ?

yer, wheres the love ?

thats great, now if only they can shift some of those workers onto the production line

i got around to ringing lemac in melbourne here in australia 2 days ago i was told they haven't received any cameras since xmas they received cameras before xmas but nothing since. they have 30 odd pre orders, im somewhere in there. so still the waiting game i pre ordered in october

odd that you mention that just now.... i just bought an el nikor 63mm enlarger lens. been waiting for one of these to turn up at a reasonable price for awhile now. i guess my lens addiction is off to a good start this year?

i'd happily own one, i just wouldn't sleep with it under my pillow . i already have a bunch of smc taks, i should have a closer look at them not really noticed any yellowing before. i may search one out after i get a 20 mm, tossing up between a fd or m42 leaning towards the fd as its a bit faster.

my logic might be flawed but wouldn't using a thorium element glass on sunsets be just like adding a filter except with the takumars its inbuilt, saving the cost of a filter ? of course you would probably need another lens for a colder look perhaps

yes that is so poignant and true, not to mention hilarious on so many levels ( one can only hope that someone from bm sees this and perhaps gets galvanized into action) that's definitely most interesting and inventive take on a camera release, someone should probably post that in the sony fanboys thread, i'm sure they would react with total awe edit : im eagerly waiting for the letter part 3 the unboxing

its a very backyard construction process, no expense spared at the moment ? but i'm not too concerned my boss has a waterjet cutter arriving in the next couple of weeks. so i plan on cutting some interesting shapes out on it as a learning experience in some more appropriate materials during my lunch break of course. i have bought a bellows off ebay a Mamiya RB67 Bellows lens Hood 150-210-300mm it looks big enough to fit the nap 35 lens and not vignette i hope. well its medium format which is bigger than 35. i know its not a terribly scientific approach more frankenstein than anything. but i think with science you lose alot of the magic in the transmutation process ?

made a leg that will hold the rear anamorphic lens. its made out of 12mm thick corian as i had it lying around next i will finish the leg holder for the front anamorphic lens had an x y milling table turn up today plan on using it for various projects the first being milling some slits in the leg holders for bolts to pass through to the clamps on the rails that aught to help with up and down alignment i hope. at this point i think with the 12mm corian and the lenses still in their original holders that's its probably heavier than when the original lens was all together in one piece, but for the learning experience that's it been its worth it for now. i have also got my eye on a medium format bellows on ebay to go between both the lens and stop stray light entering. im hoping that medium format is big enough not to cause any vignetting between the lenses. as these are pretty big lenses

well that was quite interesting and informative i think i'll be watching that again

it looks like you guys are wearing long sleeved shirts, not sure when you guys did this test but it dosen't look terribly hot where you are. if it didn't over heat for you thats great for nz and northern europe i guess. but i reckon the aussie outback sun at the moment might prove more of a challenge. in saying that its safe to assume pretty much all cameras and people would be subject to a bit of heat stress regardless at the moment .its just bloody hot out here

yer these days you have to google it. next thing you know about it is they've made the 6 oclock news and not in a positive manner ?

western australia and the northern territory and tasmania are the only places i haven't visited yet( other countries don't really count ? sorry to you other countries but its true ? ). i really should get out more, maybe when the bmp4k arrives i'll have added incentive to do something about that. i have a suspicion that that you may be able to get fireworks in canberra too. which is pretty hypocritical all things considered. actually anything that could reduce the politician count per state would be a good thing so maybe they should all get to play with fireworks and guns inside the borders of canberra. hey what happens in canberra stays in canberra right ? fireworks sounds like fun but i confess i would like all my fingers and toes to stay where they are. i also have a kilo of blackpowder lying around somwhere maybe we should meetup on territory day sometime. we could document the day with our cameras at a suitably safe distance behind your cannon ? what happens if stevie wonder decides to go for a walk ?