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Subject: [OM] Re: What's it for?
From: Andrew Dacey <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:56:38 -0300

On Aug 17, 2004, at 10:59 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:

>
> In principle that is correct Andrew - but as always, the devil is in 
> the detail.  To the best of my knowledge, the lens-flange to 
> film-plabe registers are as follows:
>
> Olympus OM            46.00mm
> M42x1 thread      45.46mm
>
> What you suggest in your last few words would hold true if the adaptor 
> thickness were no more than 0.54mm - you may well be right, but that 
> wasn't my estimate having seen the picture!

Ah, that explains it. I knew you couldn't do a M42 lens on OM body 
without an optical element, I wasn't sure about going the other way 
around.

Andrew "Frugal" Dacey
frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.tildefrugal.net/


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