my home depot 35mm adapter

[disrepleasures]

hey everyone, i have almost completed building my home depot 35mm adapter (just a fun project) all i need to do is build the wax focusing screen (http://www.jetsetmodels.info/tutorials.htm) for my static gg holder.

I used:
a 58mm +10 bower macro lens
58mm to 72mm step up ring
male and female pvc piping
static gg holder to hold my homemade focusing screen
and a minolta lens

I have put the lens on the camera, and find that once zoomed in i cant get the image to focus, now im hoping that this is because i dont have a focusing screen but i was just wondering if anyone could explain to me what exactly the focusing screen does!

do you think it will work?

 

[adoyle]

You will need the focusing screen, because it is what you set your VX2100 to focus on.

 

[stinkpot]

Can't wait to see the footage.

 

[phijie]

seriously? the focusing screen is what the 35mm lens projects the image onto, and the camera records it from behind. you might need a macro lens in there so your vx can focus on the screen