This is a replay from the
other thread,
"About the manual aperture conversion, just unscrew the screws on the back, hold the pin from outside while lifting the back off, put a piece of a cotton swab plastic shaft onto the pin from inside, close it back. There you have your manual lens (done that on version -6 and -7)."
platinum,
your lens looks nice, hope you get along with the conversion. You end up with a 'manual' lens, so you'd have to click click click stop down to your chosen aperture after focussing full open (counting spares you the looking on the scale). Otherwise, you leave it stopped down and just focus and shoot in AV-mode. This depends on the amount of light and the f-stop obviously.
It's quite easy actually, just make sure that no screws or the aperture pin would drop inside the lens while tinkering,
Georg (the other)
PS: A 'preset' lens is an earlier generation lens, where you can preset the aperture and then just fully open and close to the preset value with a separate ring (and no click click click)