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RE: [OM] Digital Back, Again

Subject: RE: [OM] Digital Back, Again
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 11:47:07 +1000

>
> No. There have been frequent and long discussions available in the
> archives.  It has to do with the distance from the mount to the film
> plane. I believe that putting an adapter, no matter how thin, between
> an Oly lens and any camera puts the lens too far away from the film
> plane to focus on infinity. Maybe something for the Sigmas of the
> world to do. Design a thin digital SLR with adaptors for legacy
> lenses.
>

Nikon register distance is 46.50mm, Oly is 46.00mm, so any adapter would
have to be .5mm thick !  Also the Nikon mount is smaller in diameter than
Oly which compounds the problem.

...Wayne



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