As some will know, I have a new fingery picturebox (aka digital camera) and I did hint that sometime I most post something taken with same.
Also, today, a new camera bag arrived, which is big enough to hold not only the camera, leads, spare batteries and cards but also the filter adapter and a few filters which I recently acquired.
The filters are normal 58mm and come in those clear plastic cases where the lid twists to grip the base with seveeral little blobs on the inside. However, in this case, the lids are too tall (meaning the filter rattles inside) and also didn't fasten very well as the little blobs didn't extend to the end of the lid.
The solution to this was to change the jaws in the lathe chuck to the other set, grip the lid in the chuck and turn about 80 thou' (2mm) from the end, making it shorter and incidentally making the blobs that grip the base work better as well.
This can be seen in the picture linked to here
The modified lid is the one on the right.
I was quite pleased that I managed to turn this stuff, it's the kind of hard clear plastic that's prone to break.
The picture is at focal length (equivalent) 61mm, 1/60s, f3.5, using flash, SHQ mode storage (best compressed mode). The camera will do raw as well.