Kiev 10/15 Lens To Canon FL/FD/FDn Body Adapter

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The Kiev 10 was the first Soviet-built 35mm SLR with automatic exposure. It did this using an internal linkage for the body to control the lens aperture -- there is no aperture control ring on the lens. The same lens mount was used by the Kiev 15 TEE, but nothing else, and the internal aperture linkage makes adapting to another mount problematic. In http://www.instructables.com/id/Using-Kiev-10Kiev-15-Lenses-On-Digital-Cameras/ , I showed a way to hack an adapter to provide a mount with an aperture control ring for Kiev 10/15 lenses, but it was awkward. Instead, the adapter shown here allows Kiev 10/15 lenses to mount and focus to infinity on standard Canon FL/FD/FDn body mounts while still providing aperture control using a less-than-20-degree twist of the lens in its mount. Why bother? Well, Kiev 10/15 lenses are optically excellent while being smaller than their brothers in other mounts -- and often are available much more cheaply. With this adapter, you can even use Kiev 10/15 lenses on an FD Lens Turbo with your Sony NEX. Of course, this is a true adapter not a mount conversion, so you don't harm your potentially collectible Kiev 10/15 lenses by using it. Be warned that this adapter does not lock, although the ones I've printed are all very firm fits. Use it at your own risk. NOTE: if you are using this to mount on a Sony E-mount body, there is now a complete adapter for that posted as http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1464062 .

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I'm a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky, best known for things like having built the world's first Linux PC cluster supercomputer in 1994... although around the 3D-printing world I'm probably best known for my HingeBox (which Tested popularized). My research group (Aggregate.Org) really is about improving computing systems by making the various SW+HW components work better together, which we do for many different types of computer systems: supercomputers, digital cameras, ... and now 3D printers. I had some experience with tool and die making using Bridgeport Series I CNCs as far back as the late 1970s, but my 3D printing adventure started in late 2012 with purchase of a MakerGear M2 for my lab to make custom camera parts in support of computational photography research. I now use multiple MakerGear M2 and Wanhao I3 3D printers, several semiconductor laser cutters, a 3040T CNC mill, a programmable paper cutter, and a small vacuum forming machine.

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