Waiting for my rokkor...

Ballu · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:23 pm Post subject: Waiting for my rokkor...

My rokkor 58/1.2 is shipped... waiting....

But hell.. traveling to Dallas till mid of next week... hopefully, it will reach by Saturday mail.. (so that I can convert before leaving on Sunday)...

But I broke my Canon FL 55mm f1.2 during conversion. /me almost crying... I almost completed the conversion, everything fell apart glass mount, helical part and base/mount all stuck together when I was assembling all the parts...

/me mad... and end up buying other Canon FL 55mm f1.2. I lost $65 in first conversion... and end up spending $40+$10 S&H on this second buy...

and yes, Rokkor has become my most expensive buy (yet)... $200 Shocked

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Sorry to hear your trouble. I look forward your report!

bawang · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 548 Location: Indiana, USA

Sorry to hear that.

I know the feeling. Having gone through a Rokkor conversion, I believe the risk is less than converting the FL Canon. You got your Rokkor cheap! Congrats.

I hope you will like your Rokkor as much as many of us who managed to get one. The Rokkor and 'Cron 90 are my two most used lens now, in between testing lens that I managed to get cheap on the web, after all that's the joy of MF.

oh...good luck withe the conversion....try to use bench drill instead of tthose cordless handheld ones. My Rokkor is still mounted with 3 screws as the fourth is not aligned....as result of inexperience and handheld drill. Embarassed