That's awesome! You guys make me look cheap. I already had a bicycle grip and a bolt to go through it so I only spent 5 bucks at Lowes for some flat steel. Drilled it and bent it then I coated it with spay plastic dip to give it a rubber coating. It serves me well and acts as somewhat of a guard...
I would second the Minolta option. I bought my wife a Minolta Maxxium SLR when they were new and the 75-300 and 35-70 lenses. I bought the Fotodiox adapter for A-E mount with aperture control ring just to try it out on the VG-10 and then the FS-100. I use the lens quite a bit and it reaches...
So, I'm going through my "Macro" phase. Running a Fotodiox A-E mount adapter, and set of macro rings with a Minolta 75-300 mm "Beer can" lens. Seemed to me I was getting on the verge of needing lens support so I cut a piece of 1" x 1/4" aluminum and drilled it so I can fit both 1/4 x 20 to the...