Posted by Mark Seaver on November 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM
I'm getting ready to sell my old Olympus film camera system. The more special lenses include 300mm, 400mm, 1.4 extender, and the 80mm short mount macro, bellows, and extension tubes. Are these of any interest/value for the digital system?
Posted by Charlie Baugh on November 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM
I really doubt it Mark. I'll wait to see if anyone provides info as to their adaptability to Olympus digital and could be interested if so.
Charlie
Posted by Jim DeWitt on November 15, 2011 at 5:11 PM
You can purchase an adapter to make Olympus film lenses work with the E-series MF-1 OM Adapter, but they will be manual lenses. There is no technology I know of to make the old lenses work the the PEN series.
Posted by David Bostedo on November 15, 2011 at 8:45 PM
There is no technology I know of to make the old lenses work the the PEN series.
Couldn't you stack the OM-to-4/3rds adapter and the 4/3rds-to-M4/3rds adapters?
Not that it's a GOOD solution of course...
That being said... there's a pretty good market for OM lenses on 4/3rds cameras, but mostly the wide angles. Some are worth up to a few hundred dollars. I'd imagine the 300 and 400 might be worth a decent amount even though they're manual focus on digital Olys. And some lenses don't work very well optically on the digital bodies.
I have a 50/1.4 for my digital Olympus body that's kind of fun to use - it's was cheapish but is crazy fast and shallow DOF. I bought it and some extension tubes just to have fun with. You might want to check KEH, Adorama, etc. to see what prices they're selling stuff for.
Posted by Harley Goldman on November 16, 2011 at 6:24 PM
I have a friend with Zuiko lenses he uses on his DX3 with an adapter. Manual, but he gets great images with them. I know he has the 300.
Posted by Brad Kargus on November 18, 2011 at 11:32 AM
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There is no technology I know of to make the old lenses work the the PEN series.
Couldn't you stack the OM-to-4/3rds adapter and the 4/3rds-to-M4/3rds adapters?
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No need for stacking. There is an Olympus MF-2 OM to micro four thirds adapter that I think has been available for a while. These days, probably the most likely use for OM lenses is adapting to mirrorless camera systems like micro four thirds and Sony Nex. OM lenses are also easily adapted to Canon dslrs. However, as Jim said, they are manual - no auto focus and for metering there is no automatic stopping down of the lens to your selected aperature.
Posted by Darren Huski on December 10, 2011 at 1:31 PM
As others have said there adapters to use OM lenses on other cameras. I have seen a lot of Canon folks speak highly of them . Which is kinda funny since when I used OM it seemed most Canon users scorned Olympus.
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6 repliesCharlie
Couldn't you stack the OM-to-4/3rds adapter and the 4/3rds-to-M4/3rds adapters?
Not that it's a GOOD solution of course...
That being said... there's a pretty good market for OM lenses on 4/3rds cameras, but mostly the wide angles. Some are worth up to a few hundred dollars. I'd imagine the 300 and 400 might be worth a decent amount even though they're manual focus on digital Olys. And some lenses don't work very well optically on the digital bodies.
I have a 50/1.4 for my digital Olympus body that's kind of fun to use - it's was cheapish but is crazy fast and shallow DOF. I bought it and some extension tubes just to have fun with. You might want to check KEH, Adorama, etc. to see what prices they're selling stuff for.
There is no technology I know of to make the old lenses work the the PEN series.
Couldn't you stack the OM-to-4/3rds adapter and the 4/3rds-to-M4/3rds adapters?
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No need for stacking. There is an Olympus MF-2 OM to micro four thirds adapter that I think has been available for a while. These days, probably the most likely use for OM lenses is adapting to mirrorless camera systems like micro four thirds and Sony Nex. OM lenses are also easily adapted to Canon dslrs. However, as Jim said, they are manual - no auto focus and for metering there is no automatic stopping down of the lens to your selected aperature.