G'day Linda,
I have a Mamiya ZE-X and the first zoom I bought was the Osawa 35-105. It
will of course also fit the ZE model Mamiya and I suspect that the lens he
is offering is just that one. I haven't yet seen an Osawa with an OM mount
but I could be quite wrong.
Incidently, I was never very impressed with their zooms, always seemed to
lack sharpness. I would have much preferred the Mamiya-Sekor's.
John.
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Linda Wunderlich
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:00 AM
To: olympus
Subject: [OM] Lens mount question -- help please!
Hi, all. I've been emailing someone about possibly buying some Osawa
lenses (35-105mm and 400mm) which did not sell awhile back on eBay. The
seller seems honest but says he knows little about cameras. He says he
bought these lenses at a bankruptcy (or estate?) sale.
The problem is, in the eBay auctions he advertised these lenses as being
for the Olympus OM-1, but he also listed a bunch of other cameras he
thought they would fit (Minolta, Pentax, Nikon, etc.), which didn't make
sense to me.
Can someone help me figure out whether these are OM lenses? My worry is
that the 35-105mm is for a Mamiya, and the 400mm is for a Nikon.
I posted pictures and the information the seller provided at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~lwunderlich/index.html
I'll also copy/paste the text below, for those who don't want to see my
first-ever personal webpage but still enthusiastically want to help me.
Thanks in advance!
Linda
>From the eBay listing descriptions:
"This lens fits the OLYMPUS OM-1 SLR 35mm CAMERA and other cameras as well.
I believe it also fits the Pentax MV, ME, and ME Super. The Minolta MD,
XG7, X-700, X-570, XG1, etc. The Yashica D . I believe it also fits NIKON
cameras as well."
>From a follow-up email when I asked him to look for information about the
mount on the boxes and on the lenses themselves:
"On the front of the lense it indicates Osawa MC . On one of the lense caps
it indicates ZE (I believe this is for the Osawa ZE model camera) It also
indicates ZE on the box. On the box that the Telephoto lense came in it
indicates For Nikon. Both lens mounts appear to be the same except that the
35 -105mm lens has electrical contacts on the base of the lense that
connects to the camera. I know these lenses fit other model cameras as
well."
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