Yuck! I'd have to have a pretty unique lens to want to mount it with an
optical element adapter. Oh, well, it's not my problem.
Thanks for the tip.
Skip
At 02:40 PM 3/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
There is an adapter made to do this Skip. However because of the
register distance it requires an optical element. I have one of the
adapters, I think that it was made by Hama.
Skip Williams wrote:
>
> Someone has asked me if they can mount a 42mm screw-mount lens on an OM
> body. I don't know of an option. Does anyone know of a way to make this
> happen?
>
> Also, are there any other options for mounting non-Olympus mount lenses on
> an OM body?
>
> I'm assuming that auto-diaphragm would be non-functional in most cases, but
> am I wrong?
>
> Skip
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