"HOW TO INSTALL THE DIY GG HOLDER KIT"
Here are the instructions to get you started with your DIY 35mm adapter. The motor fits directly into the hole on the plate which holds the ground glass. It fits exactly and snugly so you need to push it in with some force and it will stay there. The vibrating head can face either way depending on where you drill you hole. As for the distance of the gg holder from the slr lens, it will vary with different condenser lens used if placed between the ground glass and SLR lens. But lets say you want to use a 100mm focal length DCX lens as a condenser. Set your rings in this postiion.
-lensmount #2 #3 #3
() |=]
() is the condenser and |=] is the gg holder. Th fixed part of the gg holder should be fixed into the tube into the right #3 ring. The ground glass should be near the SLR lens. The condenser should be fixed to the leftmost part of the left #3 ring, or in the #2 ring. The closer the condenser is to the gg, the better. You can temporarily hold the fixed part of the gg in place in the tube by putting some hot glue round the edges of the base plate so it can be held in place inside the ring. Attach your SLR lens, preferrably with a telefoto lens so you can see the objects magnified, then set the lens to focus at infinity. Point it to an object about 20 metres away. Then look with your eye through the dof adapter. Now try to move the gg-holder with the focusing screen back and forth until the image far away is getting sharp. When you get it sharp fix the gg-holder at this distance and dont move it again or you will have to readjust it again. Also make sure the gg is parallel to your camcorder lens too. I usually push the gg a very small distance forward to slightly go beyond infinity so I know I definately can get infinity focus. After that hotglue your gg holder properly in place. Some folks put the condenser behind the gg, in between the gg and the camcorder. In this case, the condenser is actually a magnifier. This is not a good config to use as it produces chromatic abberations. But this config is still used by many adapter makers like the jag35.
-lensmount #2 #3 #3
() |=]
() is the condenser and |=] is the gg holder. Th fixed part of the gg holder should be fixed into the tube into the right #3 ring. The ground glass should be near the SLR lens. The condenser should be fixed to the leftmost part of the left #3 ring, or in the #2 ring. The closer the condenser is to the gg, the better. You can temporarily hold the fixed part of the gg in place in the tube by putting some hot glue round the edges of the base plate so it can be held in place inside the ring. Attach your SLR lens, preferrably with a telefoto lens so you can see the objects magnified, then set the lens to focus at infinity. Point it to an object about 20 metres away. Then look with your eye through the dof adapter. Now try to move the gg-holder with the focusing screen back and forth until the image far away is getting sharp. When you get it sharp fix the gg-holder at this distance and dont move it again or you will have to readjust it again. Also make sure the gg is parallel to your camcorder lens too. I usually push the gg a very small distance forward to slightly go beyond infinity so I know I definately can get infinity focus. After that hotglue your gg holder properly in place. Some folks put the condenser behind the gg, in between the gg and the camcorder. In this case, the condenser is actually a magnifier. This is not a good config to use as it produces chromatic abberations. But this config is still used by many adapter makers like the jag35.
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