RE: [APML] First Post -- 67 Image, need Help

[Todd Leen <tleen@cse.ogi.edu>]

Jeff,

The Traveler's field flattener has a glass element right at the
flange that couples to the Pentax 67; so there's no room to place
a dry air inlet on the flattener in this design.

Thanks
Todd

>I think what most folks do is drill the adapter
>that couples the '67 to the focuser.
>
>Given that there is a flattner lens in the 
>OTA direction, the dry air has no where to go 
>but into the camera and out the vacuum back.
>
>(Note: I dont have a vacuum or dry air purge on
>my camera/OTA.  But I too have considered it, and
>the above is what I gleaned during this research.)
>
>jeff
>

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