Thanks for the links.
Something seems askew with the adapter businness. The registration
distance for OM is 46mm and the Sony/Minolta AF is 44.5 leaving only
1.5mm. As mentioned the bayonet release takes up a bunch of space. I
suspect (but don't know) that the undersurface little pin release
engineered by Mirex might make an adapter sans glass possible. If
anyone is interested I could contact the technical advisor, Ian, at SRb
Griturn to see if they would machine one and get a price.
Mike
Hi all OMers,
I did some more searching and found
"Domestic_platapus" on
ebay, seems to have sold an adapter for 7000/9000-O/M not too long
back.
The common adapter for the 7000/9000/alpha on ebay seems to be to
Minolta MD,
which has a register distance 2.28mm less, than that of an OM. So it
would
would need an added spacer of ~2.28mm with an OM flange to make it
adapt to
OM? At a wild guess from adapter picture, this would add a total incl
2.2mm
above,of 7mm to the new register of an OM. So maybe a ~14% change in
FL.
Sounds a large sacrifice and it might still not accommodate the wide
angle
OM's with the protruding lens guard at rear.
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Unrelated :
I came across this recent Skip williams contribution thread on "must
have" OM
lenses:
http://photo.net/olympus-camera-forum/00ULp5
Old list members will remember skip as an active OM list member and
lens
archivist, from way back.
AND
Using OM lenses on Leica/Minolta CL rangefinder cameras.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76055
Tim Hughes
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