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Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OT - Awesome Digital Photography
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:45:33 +0800
You don't need to do so, there is OM lens to EOS adapter, you can use Zuiko
on D60 or even 1Ds. No lens element in between.

C.H.Ling

----- Original Message -----
From: "CyberSimian" <CyberSimian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ahh, but there is!  I came across this on US Ebay:
>   http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1944135606
> It is an Olympus-OM to Minolta-Maxxum lens adapter, allowing you to fit
your
> Zuikos to a Minolta Maxxum.  Then all you need to do is buy the Minolta
> RD175 digital body that accepts Maxxum lenses.
>
> The downsides are:
> (1)  The lens adapter looks as though it contains an optical element
> (presumably to extend the focal length slightly in order to give enough
> space for the adapter and still achieve infinity focus).
> (2)  There would be a multiplication factor for the focal lengths, in
> addition to that resulting from the optical element in the adapter.
> (3)  Metering would presumably be stop-down metering (although I think
that
> you would get focus confirmation using manual focus with the Maxxum body).
> (4)  The Minolta RD175 is only 1.7 megapixels (I think) -- somewhat
backward
> by current standards.
>
> -- from Cy in the UK
>


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