[OM] Re: E-410 vs E-510 and IS?

[Phil]

Well I just trawled through some threads on DP review and found conformation 
that IS does not work with older lenses.
Found this

I can confirm that Olympus says it will not work with a manual lens.

It MUST have focal length info from the lens in order to function.

In this thread

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1022&message=23567745&q=is+and+om+lenses&qf=m


Regards

Phil



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johann Thorsson" <johann@xxxxxxxx>
> I wonder why that would be?  Perhaps the IS system needs to know the focal
> length to optimize the movement compensation?  At least that is the only
> reason I could think of, it can't have anything to do with the f stop as 
> far
> as I can see?  And if I am correct, then it would also be possible to 
> supply
> the IS system with that information by e.g. typing it in somehow, which
> would make it possible to use the legacy glass.



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