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#3170792 - 01/03/11 09:22 AM What To Do With My Old OM Lenses...
MajorMagee Member Registered: 03/16/06 Posts: 954 Loc: Dayton, OH	Anyone have any experience with the Micro Four Thirds lens system? _________________________ Service To The Line, On The Line, On Time US Army Ordnance Corps.
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#3170886 - 01/03/11 11:12 AM Re: What To Do With My Old OM Lenses... [Re: MajorMagee]
Gopher Senior Member Registered: 01/06/09 Posts: 2892 Loc: London	I don't, but if you don't want to get rid of them, you could try and get mount adapters like http://www.amazon.com/Olympus-MF-2-Micro-Thirds-Adapter/dp/B002CGSYN0 so you can stick them on a micro four-thirds camera (I'm assuming that you already have a micro 4/3s camera here). Depending on the electrical contacts, you might lose exposure metering, or other things...
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#3171075 - 01/03/11 03:50 PM Re: What To Do With My Old OM Lenses... [Re: MajorMagee]
MajorMagee Member Registered: 03/16/06 Posts: 954 Loc: Dayton, OH	Thanks, I decided to buy this one. Fotodiox It will only let me use them in Manual Focus mode, but that's all I was really after anyway. One interesting thing about the mirror-less Micro Four Thirds system is that it will double the effective length of these old lenses, so my old 250mm will become 500mm without getting any bigger. Micro Four Thirds Wiki _________________________ Service To The Line, On The Line, On Time US Army Ordnance Corps.
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#3173523 - 01/06/11 04:51 PM Re: What To Do With My Old OM Lenses... [Re: MajorMagee]
speedbump Hotshot Registered: 11/23/05 Posts: 6321 Loc: Edgewood TX	I have a G1 with 14-45 and 45-200. Great camera system. There is a great forum for info if you are so inclined. I also go a SLT-A33 with Tamron 18-250. http://mu-43.com/ _________________________ MSI P55-GD65 with i5-750 @ 4.0Ghz vcore 1.370 Xigmatek Balder HS/2 120mm fans, Antec EW PSU EA750 750W GSKILL Ripjaws 2x4Gb DDR3 1333 One 2Tb Seagate LP, two 1.5Tb LP Seagates Gigabyte GTX 460 1Gb OC to within an inch of it's life Lite-On 24X DVD burner, LG 12X Blu-Ray burner COOLER MASTER Storm Scout Win 7 Pro 64 Lots of fans spinning with little LED lights blinking www.razzledazzleart.com http://texascbx.blogspot.com/
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#3173799 - 01/07/11 04:29 AM Re: What To Do With My Old OM Lenses... [Re: MajorMagee]
MajorMagee Member Registered: 03/16/06 Posts: 954 Loc: Dayton, OH	Thanks for the link. The adapter is a nicely made piece of kit, and will let me get some new life out of the old glass. One thing I'm finding is that the Micro Four Thirds "advantage" of increasing the focal length appears to work in reverse with a macro lens in that you get less magnification. I'll have to think a bit about the lens physics behind that one... _________________________ Service To The Line, On The Line, On Time US Army Ordnance Corps.
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#3173880 - 01/07/11 06:53 AM Re: What To Do With My Old OM Lenses... [Re: MajorMagee]
speedbump Hotshot Registered: 11/23/05 Posts: 6321 Loc: Edgewood TX	Smaller sensor is the worst part of M/ft cameras. No way around that. _________________________ MSI P55-GD65 with i5-750 @ 4.0Ghz vcore 1.370 Xigmatek Balder HS/2 120mm fans, Antec EW PSU EA750 750W GSKILL Ripjaws 2x4Gb DDR3 1333 One 2Tb Seagate LP, two 1.5Tb LP Seagates Gigabyte GTX 460 1Gb OC to within an inch of it's life Lite-On 24X DVD burner, LG 12X Blu-Ray burner COOLER MASTER Storm Scout Win 7 Pro 64 Lots of fans spinning with little LED lights blinking www.razzledazzleart.com http://texascbx.blogspot.com/
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#3217785 - 02/24/11 06:43 PM Re: What To Do With My Old OM Lenses... [Re: MajorMagee]
MajorMagee Member Registered: 03/16/06 Posts: 954 Loc: Dayton, OH	Here are a few shots with an old lens on the new E-PL1. Yes, I like Redheads... _________________________ Service To The Line, On The Line, On Time US Army Ordnance Corps.
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#3218274 - 02/25/11 09:24 AM Re: What To Do With My Old OM Lenses... [Re: MajorMagee]
Top Gun Veteran Registered: 01/07/01 Posts: 15661 Loc: Roch-Vegas NH	does she know you posted those on FB.... _________________________ XboxLive Tag: DOBrienTG1969 Dave O'Brien, Top Gun Photography Nikon D200x2 Nikkor 70-200VR AF-s F/2.8 Sigma 50-500 & 17-50 F2.8
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