Thanks for the information! I will try to disassamble a teleconvertor
to put on the bellows. More interestingly, I was intending to go to a
latheman and have a screw2OM built. Hand craft business is not expensive
around here :-)) If it does not work in any way, may be I go buy a cheap
screw mount lens (but then where is the Zuiko image that I love?)
Omer
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Frank van Lindert wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:24:46 +0300 (EET), Omer Nezih Gerek
> <gerek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I will be very grateful if anyone can spot or know of a place where I can
> >find an adaptor to convert a screw mount to OM mount bayonet. I've found
> >a non-auto bellows for Zenit for $20 at a local shop. I have the
> >OM-screw mount converter (non auto, nothing) to attach this bellows to my
> >OM camera, however I want to find just the opposite to attach my lenses to
> >the other side of bellows. I doubt this may cost more than the price of
> >the bellows, but the price of the bellows seems incredible for me.
>
> Hello Omer.
> The adapters you are referring to do exist, but are rather hard to be
> found. And unfortunately you will hardly ever find one under that
> fabulous $20 price you paid for the bellows. Maybe it would be easier
> to take a cheap extension tube or 2x converter and try to take the
> female OM-mount of that and epoxy it to your bellows. An old body
> mount would do fine as well for this purpose.
> >
> >What are the mounts of Zuiko bellows lenses? They are not OM bayonet I
> >suppose.
>
> 80 and 135 macro lenses have normal OM-mount. So do new (automatic) 20
> and 38mm macro heads. Older 20 and 38 macro heads used an adapter,
> called PM-Mtob (could that mean photo-micro microscope-to-bellows ???)
> which converts from normal microscope thread to OM-mount. These
> adapters cost $60-75 used!!
> >
> >Thanks for your patience. It is damn hard to find OM items in Turkey,
> >so I use mail order from USA, but it is difficult to track for such items.
> >
> >Omer Nezih GEREK
>
> Good luck.
>
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht - Netherlands.
>
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