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Re: [OM] Is it an OM adapter?

Subject: Re: [OM] Is it an OM adapter?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:01:13 -0500
IF what's pictured here: <http://www.dpreview.com/news/0303/pma2003/olympus/esysgroup.jpg>

is truly an OM adapter and it was blacked out here:
<http://www.olympus.co.jp/LineUp/Digicamera/Info/nr030303aE.html>

then I suggest that no decision has been made to release the adapter but that it is real from an engineering/prototype sense. If the body was designed/built first then it would need some lenses for testing. What better way to do the initial testing than by slapping on an OM lens?

This, of course, would not exercise all the functions of the camera but would get them started on testing and produce the prototype for the OM->E adapter should they decide to sell it.

Bernd has suggested that the aperture transmitting lever is missing. Has anyone also noticed that there appear to be additional as well as missing things. Assuming a 12 hour clock face there appears to be a brass pin at about the 6 o'clock position which looks to be on the inside edge of the mounting surface. There is also what looks to be a thick chrome pin or button in the middle of the mounting surface at about the 4 o'clock position. I haven't a clue what these are supposed to be. They don't appear to be in a position for interacting with anything on an OM lens unless one of them is simply a lens presence/absence sensor.

Can anyone postulate a use for these pins/buttons on an OM adapter or any of the other speculations such as extension tube or multiplier? I'm still guessing adapter since I'm struck by the difference in diameters between the top and bottom flanges. But I'm still not 100onvinced that it might not just be shadow hiding the full diamter of the bottom flange. Having said that, however, I also note that the bottom flange happens to look exactly like the flange on the 50mm macro to the right.
Hope, hope, hope.  Yeah, I know, a 48mm shift is not exciting.

Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA


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