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Subject: [OM] T adapters [was Re: fountain pens [was: some drivel about the latest wonderbrick]]
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:54:05 -0700
Rand E wrote:
> That wouldn't have worked for me.  I was trying to adapt a T-Mount slide 
> copier to my E-Thingie and I needed minimum register distance.
>   
It should work. The depth of a T=>4/3 should be the same as the combined 
depth of the two adapters, shouldn't it?

The length of an OM=>4/3 adapter is always the same*, the difference in 
register distance of the two mounts. If T-mounts had only been made for 
odd things like telescopes and slide copiers, I could see where a 
T-mount adapters could be of different depths, but they were originally 
developed by independent lens makers to adapt their lenses to various 
proprietary camera mounts. So as I understand it, each one is the 
appropriate length for the register distance of the mount for which it 
is made.

So, for example, the old Hanimex T mount WA my dad had focuses properly 
to infinity with the T=>Nikon mount he had and also is at the proper 
register distance on an OM body with the, different length, T=>OM mount 
adapter I bought to attach OM bodies to a Meade telescope.

Moose

* Yes, I am aware of the small difference reported between the original, 
free, OM=>4/3 adapters and the later MA-1.

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