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Subject: [OM] Re: olympus OM lenses on Nikon digital body
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:18:38 -0500
I think there must be another mechanical problem beyond the register 
distance with FD lenses.  There are millions of high quality FD lenses 
out there that can be had for a song.  It would seem to be one of the 
primary candidates for an adapter.

Chuck Norcutt

Sandy Harris wrote:
 >Checking a reference page for register distances:
 >http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/misc/mounts-by-register.html
 >
 >I find:
 >Canon FD        42 mm
 >Canon EOS     44 mm
> 
> So you cannot adapt an FD lens to EOS without an element in
> the adapter, and that both adds cost and degrades the image.
> 
> But 4/3 System register distance is only 38.58 mm so it
> should be possible to adapt FD lenses to those. Checking
> the best adapter sources I know, though:
> http://www.cameraquest.com/adapt_olyE1.htm
> http://www.rugift.com/photocameras/adapters.htm
> I do not find such an adapter.
> 

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