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Anyone using Olympus OM lenses on M4/3 ?

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I have some old OM lenses that I use on my Canon DSLRs (the 50 f1.8 with tubes is excellent for macro) and I've been thinking about adding a GH1 to the collection. I would think that a 100mm f1.8 equivalent would make an excellent portrait lens. I also have a 24 f2.8 and 35 f2.8 which are nice and sharp. How is the EVF for manual focusing?
Canon 5D with OM 50 f1.8 and 56mm extension tubes:



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As a former OM-1 user, I've used my old OM 24/2.8 quite a bit on my G1 with good results, and my OM 35-105/3.5-4.5 zoom a little. There's a Vivitar OM 135/2.8 sitting around that doesn't make much sense with the 2x crop factor. Adapters from jinfinance on ebay.

I can't find my old OM 50/1.8 (loaned out after I had stopped shooting film, no doubt), so I'll probably pick up a 50/1.4 at some point. Once the m43 20/1.7 is available (sometime after Christmas?), I will probably buy that, but that's the only m43 lens on the roadmap that interests me. OM glass is a lot cheaper, great quality, familiar, and there's a lot of it around.
 
Yes - mainly the 28mm 2.0 and the 90mm 2.0 macro - but I will try my 180mm 2.8 and my 300mm 4.5 later today.
 
I am using a few. the 50mm 2.0, 135mm 2.8 and 200mm 2.8 lenses which all works fine. It is a little fiddly to manually hit info to get zoom, focus hit info again to go back to full screen and then compose and shoot. Especially the 200mm is a little hard to use on fast moving targets, though "focus bracketing" is a technique I use alot (that way I get at least some focused pictures and a few crisp sharp ones)
 
Greetings. I am a old Olympus user. I have the OM4Ti and love it still. I use all of my Zuiko lenes on my GH1. 24mm f2.8, 35mm f2.0

,50mm f3.5 macro, 50mm f1.8, 85mm f2.0 and 200mm f.4. I also have a few others that also work with the OM but have not tried them on the GH1 as yet.
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I am a Nikon shooter. I heard great story about the Zuiko 50/1.4 and bought one. I have not receive the adapter to try out. By just looking at the size of this lens alone, I find it to be a much better fit than my Nikon counterpart, which is much bigger. The MF Zuiko 50/1.4 is about the same size/weight of my Nikon 50/1.8, which is very small by Nikon standard.

I wish there is a cheap and good 14mm lens. With that, together with the 50/1.4 and the soon to be purcahase 20/1.7 from Pan, I will have a small three lens kit, just like the good old days!
PhillipA said:
I have some old OM lenses that I use on my Canon DSLRs (the 50 f1.8 with tubes is excellent for macro) and I've been thinking about adding a GH1 to the collection. I would think that a 100mm f1.8 equivalent would make an excellent portrait lens. I also have a 24 f2.8 and 35 f2.8 which are nice and sharp. How is the EVF for manual focusing?
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I'm interested in people's thoughts on good third party adapters. The olympus one is too expensive for my purposes. Some adapters I've bought from hong kong / china sellers for other formats have been poor-fitting / loose, and since these stupid m43 adapters are expensive ($100 even for the third party ones) I don't want to waste the money on a piece of crap.
 
I ordered mine from eBay from a seller from Hong-Kong and will let you know how it works. Mine is only $60 and it looks nice in the picture (but then who knows). I have an adapter also bought on eBay for my Nikon lenses and it works well with all the lenses I have. Since these adapters do not provide any electrical communication between the lens and the camera, they should not cost that much.
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I'm interested in people's thoughts on good third party adapters. The olympus one is too expensive for my purposes. Some adapters I've bought from hong kong / china sellers for other formats have been poor-fitting / loose, and since these stupid m43 adapters are expensive ($100 even for the third party ones) I don't want to waste the money on a piece of crap.
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Yeah, I'm accustomed to these dumb tube adapters costing about $10 to $20. I guess the retailers have seen a novel market with higher demand in the micro four thirds mount or something. Maybe they are a bit more difficult to machine because of the more complex shape than the more typical $10 DSLR adapter ring, but on the other hand I do have some dumb non-electronic extension tubes for EOS that cost about $15, so I doubt that's the major factor.

Anyway please do keep me posted, I want to know how these work before buying one. If they're shoddy, I'll probably get the olympus or panasonic adapter to regular 4/3 and then adapt my manual lenses to that.
G1Houston said:
I ordered mine from eBay from a seller from Hong-Kong and will let you know how it works. Mine is only $60 and it looks nice in the picture (but then who knows). I have an adapter also bought on eBay for my Nikon lenses and it works well with all the lenses I have. Since these adapters do not provide any electrical communication between the lens and the camera, they should not cost that much.
Walter A23 said:
I'm interested in people's thoughts on good third party adapters. The olympus one is too expensive for my purposes. Some adapters I've bought from hong kong / china sellers for other formats have been poor-fitting / loose, and since these stupid m43 adapters are expensive ($100 even for the third party ones) I don't want to waste the money on a piece of crap.
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I love the OM lenses on the GH-1, relatively compact, and great images.

See http://www.ayton.id.au/gary/JAlbumAll/ByLens/PanasonicGH1/index.htm

for some photos taken according to lens used, including Lens Baby, Canon lenses as well as OM lenses.

The OM 21mm f/3.5 is great for street photography - just set a focus on the ring and away you go, however, the Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 will replace that when I can afford one.

The OM 100mm f/2.8 takes a little time to focus using MF assist but is really good for a bit of telephoto reach and f/4 is excellent.

They certainly have their place.
 
It has been an illuminating discussion. I already have adapters for my Canon EOS system for OM, Leica R, Zeiss C/Y and 42mm thread. I will probably get an EOS - M4/3 adapter so I don't have to buy separate ones for my (growing) MF lens collection. Back to my original post - The EVF is O.K. for manual focusing?
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