IF what's pictured here:
<http://www.dpreview.com/news/0303/pma2003/olympus/esysgroup.jpg>
is truly an OM adapter and it was blacked out here:
<http://www.olympus.co.jp/LineUp/Digicamera/Info/nr030303aE.html>
then I suggest that no decision has been made to release the adapter but
that it is real from an engineering/prototype sense. If the body was
designed/built first then it would need some lenses for testing. What
better way to do the initial testing than by slapping on an OM lens?
This, of course, would not exercise all the functions of the camera but
would get them started on testing and produce the prototype for the
OM->E adapter should they decide to sell it.
Bernd has suggested that the aperture transmitting lever is missing.
Has anyone also noticed that there appear to be additional as well as
missing things. Assuming a 12 hour clock face there appears to be a
brass pin at about the 6 o'clock position which looks to be on the
inside edge of the mounting surface. There is also what looks to be a
thick chrome pin or button in the middle of the mounting surface at
about the 4 o'clock position. I haven't a clue what these are supposed
to be. They don't appear to be in a position for interacting with
anything on an OM lens unless one of them is simply a lens
presence/absence sensor.
Can anyone postulate a use for these pins/buttons on an OM adapter or
any of the other speculations such as extension tube or multiplier? I'm
still guessing adapter since I'm struck by the difference in diameters
between the top and bottom flanges. But I'm still not 100 onvinced
that it might not just be shadow hiding the full diamter of the bottom
flange. Having said that, however, I also note that the bottom flange
happens to look exactly like the flange on the 50mm macro to the right.
Hope, hope, hope. Yeah, I know, a 48mm shift is not exciting.
Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
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