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[OM] Unusual macro item.

Subject: [OM] Unusual macro item.
From: Mark Marr-Lyon <o9938156@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:57:43 -0800
I just picked up a rather odd piece of OM(?) macro gear.  Someone
started with a Pentax Auto Bellows A, removed the Pentax mounts, 
then put half of a Olympus 7mm extension tube on each end, and 
presto! an Olympus mount non-auto bellows.  In addition, he also
machined a very nice adjustable flash mount using an Olympus TTL
remote shoe thingy.  

But maybe the most unusual thing about it is the 100mm/f4 Leitz
Macro-Elmar lens on the front of it.  Somehow, I doubt these were
ever made with OM mounts, so he must've converted that too.  The
lens/bellows combination works very well.  At minimum extension,
the lens is focused on infinity, and at maximum extension, it's
focused on a point about 4 inches away, with field about 1 inch
wide.

Anyway, here are my questions.  First, does anyone know anything 
about this lens?  How does it compare with the Zuiko macros?  
Also, how does one meter with a contraption like this?  I don't 
have the rest of the hardware to use the remote flash mount, so 
I'll probably just try some ambient light shots with my OM-1n.  I 
would guess it would be like metering with just a non-auto 
extension tube, but how do you do that?  What f/stop does the 
camera think it's set to with one of these on it?

Also, I'd like to know what one of these things is worth.  I paid
about $300(US) for it.  Did I get a bad deal?  Personally, I don't
think so.  Maybe it wasn't a steal, but seems ok to me.  The other
Zuikos they had were a bit overpriced, IMHO, with a 50/1.2 for 
$400, and a 100/2.8 for $230.  First time I'd seen either of those,
and both look very cool.  Lotsa glass in the 50/1.2 and the 100/2.8
is tiny!!

Thanks,

Mark Marr-Lyon

PS.  The salesperson said that this was the last item of one 
person's *large* collection that they had.  The collection 
originally included 22 OM bodies, from 10's to 4Ti's, and about 
40 lenses, up to 400mm.  Remind you of anyone we know? :) :)

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