[OM] Re: Zuiko 35 shift availability?

[Daniel Sepke]

Or you could do what I did and have the mount replaced on an old Nikkor to
work on OM bodies...

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Sorry about the quality of these images. The machining work for this
modification was done by Joe Belijan of the battery cap fame. This older
model lens is I think actually harder to modify as the mounting tube is very
short in comparison to the later revisions. Anyway I did it because it was
cheap and I wanted to take one back from the Nikkor crowd for all the 24mm
shifts that have been remounted to that dark side.

My next remounting project is a Minolta 24mm Variable Field Curve lens. Yeah
I know I'm sick...

On film via the picture OM-2 this lens works pretty well for what I have
used it for. I don't have any images scanned to give examples though. What I
haven't tried yet is AG's pano/shift technique for the E-1. One day!

Dan S.

> [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne Harridge
> Subject: [OM] Re: Zuiko 35 shift availability?
> I've got a Nikkor, seems to produce results as good as a 
> Zuiko I borrowed once.
> A major advantage of the Nikkor is that it doesn't rely on 
> friction to hold the shift in the correct position.  You 
> could probably buy one with a decent Nikon body for the 
> current going price of a Zuiko too.
> ...Wayne


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