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RE: re:[OM] Pentax M42 Screwmount to Olympus OM

Subject: RE: re:[OM] Pentax M42 Screwmount to Olympus OM
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 20:57:29 +1100
>
> Could'nt you get a concave lens made by your trusted optician?
> Like a reverse close-up lens, which is a convex lens. A concave
> lens in a filter ring could compensate, but presumably with loss
> of image quality. Has anyone thought of this before?
>

This is essentially what the M42 to OM adapters (with the glass in them)
have, you get something like 1.1x the focal length and it moves the infinity
focus point back a few mm.

Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~w_harridge/


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