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2025-06-09

Mitakon [Zhongyi] Creator 35/2: Adapting for Pentax film cameras

The Mitakon [Zhongyi] Creator 35/2 with Pentax mount can damage a film camera. This is due to the absence of a groove for the stop-down indicator. Therefore, I modified the lens for use with a film camera.

I removed the mount and cut it with a drill and file (I used the M42-Pentax K adapter as a template).





This groove moves the stop-down indicator when the lens is mounted.




The modified lens worked well when tested with the Pentax Super A, despite my sloppy work.




One rhetorical question: Why couldn't Zhongyi, the manufacturer, do such a simple thing itself?

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