Old OMlenses on E1 body via adapter

[zuikoholic]

Hi Ivan,

I got my OM-EOS(EF) adapter from a Japanese company called Kindai International (I was given the following email address, but I can't say if this is still appropriate now: h.masuda@kindai-inc.co.jp). It's a bit expensive as it's only 2mm thick, but it works!

I think that not limiting yourself to 1 brand is a good thing. However, I've such a large investment in Zuiko OM lenses that I really don't want to have to buy duplicates from another manufacturer. Actually, the main reason I looked at Canon was that I knew I could get the adapter - I'm just lucky that, at present, Canon makes the most affordable DSLRs that are still of a high quality.

Just a note about the fisheye technique: because the 4/3 system crops more than the 10D, maybe an 8mm fisheye would be more useful on the E-1...

 

[walrichard]

As a very happy user of the new Olympus E1 - both commercially and for my own shots - I am delighted that both Olympus and the Chinese have brought out adapters that allow use of the OM system Zuiko lenses. The auto focus and light metering is lost, but if like me you are shooting in a studio with flash, or outside with a good light meter, this is a small price to pay against buying the full set of digital lenses.
Zuiko lenese have always been as good as any and if you shoot raw files, they can be converted to tiff or jpg with adjustment to the number of pixels interpolation that still produces amazing results to blow ups from the 5 megapixels shots.
I admit that I would have preferred Olympus E1 to have a higher pixel count but I have shot magazine covers that have been cropped from the 4:3 raw format and, after interpoation, have still looked as sharp as a knife. Portraits show every hair and detail perfectly.
Lord Lichfield, the recently deceased royal and celebrity portrait photographer, used this camera and produced A) sized blowups as prints. Ifit was good enough for such a distinguished photographer, it is good enough for me.
The only downside is the slight graininess that can result from higher ISO shots, but mostly I stick to 100 or 200 ISO (max 400) and use appropriate flash or light. I would not advise using the interpoated ISO r&s to 1088 or 3200 that the camera allows. Against this is the complete lack of abberation or fall off that the camers produces with its digital lenses. (I have yet to examine the results using the OM2 lenses on an adapter).