Samyang/Rokinon 135 MFT to M 42 (T2) Adapter/converter
I'm an astrophotographer and back over a year ago now I bought a Rokinon 135 MFT without realizing that it has the MFT mount. Only when I got it did I realize my mistake. My monochrome imaging trains are incompatible with these lenses entirely without a custom adapter. Fortunately I can make some pretty good models now and after about a year of messing with 3D printed variants of the adapter I eventually decided to have machined, I threw in the towel. I threw together a quick design that checked all of the boxes, made a test print, the test print worked but was a little tight so I made the holes and things a little bit wider for tolerances, and sent the final version in to PCB Way to get machined. I was a bit worried about several things, did I make the holes too wide, was the spacing for the holes correct, did the little lip I add cause problems with production, is the lip too tall, will they get the threads right. I realized about a week after my design was approved that I left a verbal typo in my "very technical" drawing where I put r = 42 for the threads instead of d = 42. Fortunately somebody caught that and the threads came out perfectly. The holes line up perfectly, they're not too wide, the screw heads seat perfectly, etc. I really didn't know what to expect and didn't know if the price would justify the cause (can't get things CNC'd on an individual basis for the majority of available services in the US), but fortunately it looks like everything worked out. There was a long delay in production but I did not care as long as I got what I ordered. The last photo I included was of me using the lens with this adapter and my Canon 600D to take a photo of a photo I took displayed on a computer screen, for fun. It works, and I couldn't be happier right now. This was the biggest hurdle and now it is out of the way!







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