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This is what you receive from Leitax, a precision machined ring and bayonet and the necessary screws. |
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The Zeiss Milvus ZF lenses have a mechanism to declick the aperture ring, you can operate it with this screw . |
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Remove the screw on the top of the lens, where the indexes are. |
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We have to know the length of the original screws to use the correct ones on the Leitax mount. |
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Also you can measure it with a ruler. Just tell me the length of this top screw and I will provide the correct ones together with the Leitax mount. |
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To start with the conversion we have to remove all four screws, you can see one is different. |
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And lift the original mount. |
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We have to remove the sealing rubber ring, not compatible with the Leitax mount. It would not work on a Canon camera anyway. |
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And save it in the lens box, to be able to rebuild the lens to its original condition at any time. |
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Now we put the original mount again in its place and secure it with that different screw. Don't tighten it too much, use only two fingers on the screwdriver. |
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Now we are going to put the Leitax ring, note it has a hole that coincides witht the declicking screw. |
![]() | Made it coincide with that screw and the rest of holes will coincide as well. |
![]() | And we can secure the Leitax ring with the three provided screws. |
![]() | Now the Leitax mount, also it has a new hole to have access to the decliking mechanism. |
![]() | It is very useful to have the Phillips screwdriver magnetized with these small screws. |
![]() | We secure the Leitax mount with six small screws. |
![]() | Ready, look at the still accesible declicking mechanism screw. |
![]() | You can declick this lens using our flat screwdriver. |
![]() | And the Zeiss Milvus lens for Nikon cameras is now working fine on a Canon camera. |
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