Frustrated at finding the oddball adapters for my lenses, I decided to take a stab at making my own. Above is a first try at making a 49mm adapter. It's just a simple threaded ring. It's kind of rough, I know. I need to sharpen my bits.

Luckily, I own a lathe. Unfortunately it's an old South Bend, and it won't do metric threads. Fortunately, however, it *will* cut an inch thread that's close enough to M49x0.75.

Here's the adapter installed on the end of a 50mm SLR lens. With this I can attach it backwards (I tried it, it works) onto my digital camera's fliter threads, and give myself super-dooper macro ability.

Like I say, this is just a first go. Once I've sharpened
up my lathe bits I'm going to try and make some of the
step-down rings I had asked about earlier.

Here's to the great handy-man/inventor-type individual! Good work Artemia, and very enterprising of you! :-)>

i bet Cam was drooling over the shot of the lathe,lol wonderful inventiveness(is that a word?) i think that it is so impressive when someone does'nt allow a challenge to stymie them. what kind of digicam do you have? :)

Well done, great ingenuity & that is some awesome machinery you have there ; )

elusive.chaos

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star...." (Nietzsche)

what I would kill to own a lathe... those things rule. A Friend of mine is building his own metal lathe. Should take him a lonnnnggggg time.