Greetings digital camera owners,
I recently posted questions about cutting down a lens O.D. on the optics newsgroup. I posted to metalworking dot com some text and 4 pictures showing a camera adapter and adapter rings for a Cybershot DSC-W120 along with a picture of the achromat lens I cut down and the tools used to do the cutting. Also in one of the pictures is shown the annulus left over from the cutting down process. Advice from the optics newsgroup was instrumental in my attempt to cut a smaller lens out of a larger one. I was successful on my first try. I used diamond paste and a bronze hole saw to cut the lens which was mounted in an aluminum chuck and held there with dopping wax. The files are called: