Best I know Douglas is to stick to Tamron Adaptall 2 - they will all fit
with the Olympus mount, which is easy to come by. You will occasionally
find an Adaptall 1 lens, but finding the Adaptall 1 mount for OM is *hard*.
Ignore T-mounts - you can get them for OM easily and cheaply, but the mount
had no auto-diaphragm mechanism, so all the lenses are manual diaphragm.
As to the rest, they are generally not interchangeable mount lenses, so
although you may find the same spec lenses in Pent*x and OM mounts, you
can't switch them.
Piers
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Douglas Tourtelot
Sent: 16 July 2003 06:26
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Adaptall etc?
Sorry to ask what must be a pretty inane question; even done some web
research but I am still confused as to "what is what."
How do I know without looking (Ie, buying off oboy or from an on-line
retailer) which older Tameron, Tokina, and etc. lenses will accept an OM
mount. I have found some of both listed as mounting on other cameras
(Pentax, Nikon, Canon) that were good buys but I didn't want to get stuck
with a lens that didn't have an adapting mount and an available OM adapter
from somewhere else. Anyone give me a quick tutorial?
Thanks.
D.
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