I picked up a handmade brass OM => EOS adapter from Macau on the 'Bay.
Stephen Sharf has been kind enough to loan me his D60 for a week for
play and learning. The adapter is basically just a machined peice of
brass with a couple of screws as stops and to stop down the lens and a
couple of red alignment dots. It isn't perfect, but quite servicable.
Wouldn't last for heavy use because the brass would wear, but cost less
shipped here than half what a Kindai from Japan or Cameraquest (they are
in CA, so I would pay 8+% tax.) would be.
My general impressions is that one can take very fine images with OM
mount lenses on DSLRs. Of course, we have C.H.'s results from his D300
and Stephen's motor sports pics, but iI gave his D60 a change of pace
taking pics of mostly stationary things.
I took pics with several lenses and had a lot of fun. There was
certainly a learning curve. I've been spoiled the last few years using
color neg film, where highlights never blow out. On the D60 I initially
had problems with blowing out highlights and with metering in general.
Switching metering pattern, practice and auto exposure bracketing really
helped with that. Now I can really see where the superimposed histogram
in the viewfinder of the A1 (and, I presume, other prosumer DCs) would
be a big help!
Anyway, I just threw up some pics on the web
<http://www.geocities.com/dreammoose/D60/index.htm>. No captions yet,
but the first 9 pics are with a Kiron 105/2.8 macro lens and the rest
are with a Zuiko 50/1.4. Numbers 7 and 15 (note the spider webs) are
straight crops from the original output of the camera. Some of the
others were cropped before downsampling and others were downsampled from
the full frame. I did some histogram, brightness and contrast adjustment
to some, but no sharpening. Mostly shot at f8 or smaller apertures for DOF.
I also took some other pics with other lenses, but they aren't really up
to display, although not for lens performance reasons. I took several
pics of birds at my feeder with a couple of zooms at 200mm and the
300/4.5, but didn't really have enough light, so the birds aren't really
sharp. The seed through dirty plastic is sharp, but hardly photogenic.
One more day with it, so I'll see what else catches my eye.
Moose
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