On Mar, 13 ott 1998 4:45, William Sommerwerck <mailto:williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>If (as has been stated) the autofocus OM project has been abandoned,
>there is little hope for the long-term survival of the OM system. There
>is, however, no reason an autofocus lens couldn't fit on a manual-focus
>camera and operate properly, so I really wonder why Olympus dropped the
>design.
Nikon's and Pentax' do, but OM-AF ones don't, why?
I tried to discover the reason and I think it is the AF pins that cannot
enter OM mount because a dent inside "conventional-OM" cameras' mount. Of
course you can mount Zuikos on an OM-77 camera.
BTW even if it was possible to mount AF lenses on any OM-1, 2 etc. you
couldn't use the diaphragm nor the focus setting.
Maybe Oly realized it was a mistake to have non double-way compatiblity (a
la Pentax or Nikon) and then dropped AF project at all.
Marco
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