The Jannie
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- Dec 27, 2010
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I was bored this morning and so went out into cyberspace to see if my GX might be worth using for infrared. Yes, I know, i could have stepped into the garden and tried it! Anyway, there were a few positive leads and I tried it fairly successfully, getting handholdable exposures in bright sunlight. Holding the R72 in front of the lens was awkward, though, and HA-1 adapters are not exactly thick on the ground. Then I remembered a filter adaptor I'd bought for my LX1 and never used because I didn't like the very tight push-fit which was needed.
That push-fit is by courtesy of an internal rubber o-ring, which I removed to find that the adaptor was then a loose fit on the GX lens barrel. I delved into one of my many drawers full of items I really should have thrown away and found part of a John Goodman film camera seal replacement kit, a self-adhesive spongy foam about 1mm thick. As you can see from my photographs, the job's a good un as the adapter is now a neat sliding fit and holds my R72 nicely.
Fittingly I took the photographs with the GX sitting on top of our recycling bin!
That push-fit is by courtesy of an internal rubber o-ring, which I removed to find that the adaptor was then a loose fit on the GX lens barrel. I delved into one of my many drawers full of items I really should have thrown away and found part of a John Goodman film camera seal replacement kit, a self-adhesive spongy foam about 1mm thick. As you can see from my photographs, the job's a good un as the adapter is now a neat sliding fit and holds my R72 nicely.
Fittingly I took the photographs with the GX sitting on top of our recycling bin!
