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Others | Home » » » Olympus MF-1 OM Lens Adapter | | | | | | | Description: | | The Olympus MF-1 OM Lens Mounting Adapter permits the adaption of certain Olympus OM lenses to be used with the E-1, Evolt E-300, E-330 and E-500 Four Thirds Digital SLR Cameras. | | | Features: | |
• Adapts certain Olympus OM lenses for use with E1, Evolt E300, and E500 digital cameras
• Fits 62mm mount
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.51 pounds | | Package Length:
| 3.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 13 reviews |
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14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 The reason I chose Olympus and I'm so happy with it!May 20, 2009
By Seeker
I spent about a month trying to figure out which digital SLR I should buy for my first such camera. I have an Olympus OM 2N film camera from about 25 years ago and I have 3 prime lenses. Lenses were one of the things that was making my choice for a digital SLR difficult as good ones can be really expensive and I didn't want to have to spend a lot of money on buying several of them to cover a good range from wide to telephoto.
Once I discovered this converter, I decided I was going to stick with Olympus (E 520) and, with the purchase of this converter, I would have 3 prime lenses before I even bought one new lens. My old lenses are compact and built more solidly than the standard or mid-range lenses available now for Olympus. Even my old 135mm telephoto - which is now effectively a 270mm telephoto - is more compact than the 14-54mm lens, that I splurged and bought along with the Evolt 520, and it works great! With Olympus digital SLR's Four Thirds system, your old OM lenses will have a crop factor of 2, which means that your 28mm lens will act as a 56mm lens, your 50mm lens will act as a 100mm lens, your 135 will act as a 270 lens, etc. So, like me, you may be able to get away with buying a lens that covers the wide angle to normal range (like the kit 14-42 lens or the mid-range 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 lens) and use your old lenses to cover the telephoto range.
The converter itself is solidly built and worked perfectly on all 3 of my lenses. You should be aware that when using the converter you cannot use autofocus but if you don't mind focusing manually and you have some decent lenses from Olympus OM cameras, this little gadget will give you great extra lenses to use with Olympus digital SLRs.
18 of 20 found the following review helpful:
outstanding and cost effective!May 09, 2007
By Gary M. Carlson
Connectes well to E-500 and easy to manually use all of my old OM 10 SLR lenses. Very good fit and pictures with item.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Works great with old glassOct 13, 2008
By A. McConnaughey
"Engrpiman"
I successfully adapted 4 (3) Olympus om lenses (28m and 2 50mm and 1 tamron) to my digital camera (E-500) using the adapter. Even with the Tamron lens that need an adapter to connect to the OM system, the lens produce nice sharp pictures.
The build quality is great and heavy lenses stay on the camera.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 It works...sortaNov 24, 2009
By C. Kearney
I have a collection of Olympus OM lenses that I used to use with an OM-1 and OM-2 body. They include a 24mm f 2.8, 100mm f2.8 and a 200mm f4. I bought a E-420 (small, inexpensive DSLR) to take to Europe on a business trip this spring. I just purchased the MF-1 Lens adapter so I could use the OM lens on the DSLR body.
The adapter does allow me to attach the OM lenses securely to the E-420 body. As expected there is no auto focus. Manual focus is more difficult then it was on the film camera because of the smaller and dimmer viewfinder on the E-420. Another issue is that you focus with maximum aperture and then you have to dial in the f-stop you want to use to take the photo. The aperture does not close automatically like it did on the film cameras.
With the camera set on aperture priority you can sort of use the E-420 meter to determine exposure. I say "sort of" because it is not accurate at all f-stops. For instance, when using the 200mm, the camera underexposes when the lense is set at f4 or f5.6. Exposure is correct at f8 and above. The same thing happens with the 100mm. Other then the manual stops and metering issues the OM lenses work well with the adapter. Images are sharp, lenses focus to infinity - things work pretty much as expected.
Considering that I had the OM lenses sitting unused in a closet, the MF-1 adapter buying the adapter made sense. After using it I would not consider buying additional OM lenses. I would rather spend my money on new lenses that were designed for the DSLR.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Very usefulJul 03, 2008
By Scott Hull
I got this adapter in order to make use of some of my old lenses from my OM-G, and it seems to work well. I had amassed a number of nice lenses over 25 years, and now they aren't just lying around collecting dust. Having to manually focus isn't that bad; after all, I manually focused for all those years before. The only problem is that my new E-510 viewfinder isn't really set up well for manual focusing. So far, though, all of my lenses have worked well, and at an equivalent of twice the focal length I was used to.
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