Unbalanced

No, not me (well…), it’s my scope.

I loaded everything onto my MI-250 as planned for next week and discovered I can’t get a good balance left-right (uhm, declination). It’s that 300mm f/4 lens on the Pentax 67.

I had a clever idea that suffered the same fate as many of my clever ideas—it didn’t work. So I got out the drill press and attacked the bar on which I mount the cameras, adding several new thru-holes where they can be mounted including the ability to shift the whole bar left or right about 1/2-inch and the ability to move the cameras out another 3/4-inch or in about 2-1/4 inches. The combination should allow me to move the 300mm f/4 Pentax 67 closer to the centerline while also moving the 75mm f/4 Pentax 67 on the opposite side out a little further. That will help both balance and framing since I was just barely avoiding having that 75mm see the end of the scope.

Of course, if I paid the bucks for a real mounting system, I wouldn’t have those problems. I’d just have other problems, like paying my credit card bill….