Anyone willing to build and sell a quality 35mm adapter?

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Revsta

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I know these things aren't too hard to build--either the static kind or the spinning motor kind, but I'm looking to see if any of you who have had success with these bad boys are willing to build me a working model of one and I could pay you.

I'm really anticipating the release of the mini35 from mini35.com or whatever, but so far it seems like he's at at standstill (James if you read this let me know cause you're first on my list as a seller) so I'm looking for one in the meantime.

Anyway, somebody let me know what's good. Thanks.
 
All of the home made stuff gives you a 180 degree inverted image (take a piece of paper and rotate it 180 degrees, it is upside down and left and right is reversed)

So far no-one has a commercial product for sale other than P+S Technik and the ones in development have this fatal flaw. Also, so far nothing I have seen indicates a good system in place to adjust center of gravity related to tripod shoe placement; they all require you to use the slot on the camera, so it is seriously front-heavy.

Not trying to be cynical, but these are big problems that developers need to consider.

The cost for making one of the static adapters is cheap for optical components (well, reasonably) and in contrast the machining feels like extortion... all for a device that requires you to flip in post to get an erect image. Bummer.

Sorry, all that was off-topic. I don't know where to get one besides P+S Technik.

brian wells
 
Revsta said:
I know these things aren't too hard to build--
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They seem difficult if you plan on making a good one. If you just want to film some image projected on a ground glass they are a peice of cake. If you want usable footage then they arent to easy. I am gambling that the user called easom aerospace will make a classic. It looks so cool. I havent seen any footage yet but some stills look good. IG
 
indieGuerilla said:
They seem difficult if you plan on making a good one. If you just want to film some image projected on a ground glass they are a peice of cake. If you want usable footage then they arent to easy. I am gambling that the user called easom aerospace will make a classic. It looks so cool. I havent seen any footage yet but some stills look good. IG
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I've been following the adapter craze for what? maybe 2 years now? Anyway, I was seriously going to make one myself after doing quite a bit of reading and following the various threads to get a firm grasp of the different approaches taken, then the Easom brothers appear and come out with a slightly different spin on things (bad pun intended) with the mid format apporach they just recently announced on this forum. Geez, and they have been just down the street a ways from me the whole time. After having actually had the thing in my grubby hands and shot and seen some very rough test footage first hand, I would have to say Cory is on the right track. Check out his thread here:

<http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=110922>

It's a great design and has had some good thought put towards some aspects other designs have possibly overlooked.I'm sure Cory will be releasing some new stills or something when he feels the quality and testing are to his liking.
Steve
 
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