I have been following one of the Japanese BBS sites on the
4/3 mount adapters for OM lenses. It appears that Olympus
Japan is to distribute the application forms for the adapters
to the registered E-1 users in Japan after January 15.
The distribution of the free adapters are to begin in late
February with first come (application) first serve basis.
For those who are interested in reading Japanese,
the website of the BBS is:
http://hpmboard2.nifty.com/cgi-bin/thread.cgi?user_id=YHW02216&disp_no=2778&log_no=2778&msg_per_page=50&def=50
or find log_number 2778 (beginning thread) under
http://hpmboard2.nifty.com/cgi-bin/thread.cgi?user_id=YHW02216
and find handle name 24mm (log_number 2784 and 2788) who
actually made inquiries to Oly Japan.
I am yet to find more info on the adapter itself such as
specifications.
Jim Terazawa
Skip Williams wrote:
>
> I saw this tonight on www.dpreview.com
>
> Skip
>
> This is from auto-translated text as I cannot read japanese, so I'm not sure
> if it
> is a rumor or 100% fact.
>
> According to two japenese photography sites, Olympus is going to start
> sending free
> OM adopters to all registered owners of E-1 by mail!
>
> (Well, if Olympus read the Dpreview forum, they would have known about the
> demand
> for this about a year ago)
>
> According to what I can make out from the auto-translated text:
>
> * AF does not work, only MF. It also "squeezes exposure", "photometry
> drinking",
> "contraction priority AE", and "manual exposure"
>
> * data will be available about "contraction" and focal length"
>
> * they'll start shipping sometime in February on a first-come-first-served
> basis
>
> Sources (auto-translated japanese sites):
>
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/... ...talcamera.jp%2F&lp=ja_en&tt=url
>
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/... ...camezine.com%2F&lp=ja_en&tt=url
>
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/... ...ne.com%2F4%2F3%2Farchives%2F000516.html
>
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