Re: Lens Collimator

2002-02-24 Thread Joseph McAllister
on 2/23/02 23:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: Besides, these measurement are always to the plane of the film, NOT the front of the lens as some people assume and I don't think Pentax has ever issued a camera with a film plane mark to measure at in any case. I've seen it written that Pentax

Re: Lens Collimator

2002-02-24 Thread Bmacrae
In a message dated 2/24/2002 1:40:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen it written that Pentax suggests using the back edge of the top or bottom plate, minus a fat 2mm, to define the film plane. Yeah, that sounds accurate enough. I bet that would would work fine.

Lens Collimator

2002-02-23 Thread Shel Belinkoff
How do these things work? -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ You can't have everything. Where would you put it? - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to

Re: Lens Collimator

2002-02-23 Thread Bmacrae
Shel... This link explains the adjustment of a movie camera lens...but it is of course the same basic principle as applied to all collimating: http://lavender.fortunecity.com/lavender/569/lenscollimation.html Don't know if it helps or not... I don't believe collimation is really much of an