I commented earlier that there was an OM to Sony/Minolta AF mount on
ebay. Your comments prompted me to take a second look and this time I
found two. But both have an optical element for infinity focus which I
hadn't noticed before. Too bad.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/24/2012 7:00 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> When I was looking into a full frame dig home in addition to my OM
> bodies I gave the OM to Sony a good look. Tim
> on our list (Dr. Battery) and superb engineer thought the latch
> mechanisms and the lens throat issue would make it next to impossible
> w/o mount surgery. Ian at Srb said the same. Now one can do reversible
> mount surgery (at least for some Zuikos) using an M42 adapter
> and make this happen. Dave at Leitax looked into this for a kit but it
> never seemed to materialize. One could ask again. I possibly could find
> the
> post on FM with the directions if it is critical. It didn't look t be
> that difficult a procedure with the step by step directions, but I
> couldn't do it to my zuikos.
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