Ishpuini wrote:
> Lance B wrote:
> > Thank you, Wim
> >
> > How was your trip?
> Great thanks!! Cambodia was very easy to travel in and I got some
> great pictures. See
> http://www.ishpuini.be/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=9
> The first 6 images are by Anne with her P&S. The rest was PPd
> in-camera and resized/uploaded using available (often not so good)
> software in various internet cafés. Then were done to post next to
> the text on our travel blog. I hope to PP some of the properly soon,
> but time is short right now. Probably a final series will emerge
> during the days I'm taking off between Christmas and the New Year...

I am about to get off to bed, so I will have a look tomorrow.
>
> > It is easy, it's just a matter of undoing the clamp screw and turning
> > 90 degrees. :-)
> Same as with the Sigma... Great! Though not very accurate it's simple...
>
> > Can be reverse mounted, but it depends on where it fits on the lens
> > itself as to whether it snags on the camera anywhere. You can
> > dismantle the tripod collar by undoing the screw at the bottom too,
> > but that means needing a screw driver. You will need to check all
> > this when you get your copy. I also had a 2mm slot milled into the
> > trpiod collar base the width of the tripod collar ring so that the
> > ring cannot turn on the collar base as it is only held on by the one
> > screw.
> I'll have to check that on my copy indeed, as I don't really see what
> you mean with that 2mm slot...

If you look at the ring(that the lens sits into) where it connects to the base block, you will see that it is only held onto the base block by a single screw:
http://i.pbase.com/o3/21/489821/1/88887647.HozhLk4f.IMGP3519.jpg
This means that the base block can swivel in relation to the lens mount ring if you're not careful.
If you look at the following photo, you will see that the lens mount ring has a flat base where it attaches to the mount block. Where the flat base of the lens mount ring is, I had a friend mill a 2mm slot, the same width as the lens mount ring, across the width of the base block which means that the lens mount ring now fits into a groove and therefore will not swivel in relation to the base block.
http://i.pbase.com/o3/21/489821/1/88887649.9gRqmfO4._IGP5853.jpg

I have not had the chance to take a photo of the base block slot so as you can see more easily.
>
> > I will wait and see what the inage quality of the DA*300 is like
> > before deciding the fate of my much loved FA*300. ;-)
> I will probably too. Not in a hurry to get that one (contrary to
> other glass in the past) ;-)
>
> cya!! Wim
>
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