mottershead Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 Welcome to the Olympus forum on photo.net. This is a place to ask questions about and discuss photography equipment manufactured by Olympus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecarter Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 WOOHOO!!! An Olympus forum! At least! :-D Thanks Brian! At last, I don't have to look at the Leica forums with envy... :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted September 2, 2003 Share Posted September 2, 2003 Wow, Brian, you are just full of surprises lately. Thanks again. I must say that despite having switched from my old standby Canon FD gear last year to Nikon manual focus gear, I couldn't get rid of my few pieces of Olympus OM stuff. It's too small, lightweight and convenient. All of it will fit into a Lowepro Off Trail waist bag or Beseler Lifestyle canteen shoulder bag - can't say the same of my Nikon gear. I've even been thinking of adding an OM-2N. Trying to resist, tho'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40mm Posted September 2, 2003 Share Posted September 2, 2003 Yes, thanks, Brian. Lex - I've got a well-used, but good working order, black OM-2N I could part with at a bargain price... I, too, switched to another system and procrastinated about selling it, but I never use it, so I'd be happy to let it go to a good home... Out of curiosity (or displacement activity), I was looking at OM gear prices on a certain popular auction site over the weekend and noticed that prices have dropped plenty of late. Almost tempted to go on a spree... there's some real bargains in OM stuff around right now... then my wiser wife reminded me we need furniture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n m Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Light?!! I never accused OM things of being light. I do appreciate the build quality of the old system though. What is it that you think of as light Lex, and opposed to what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neild Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 The system is light, and compact - but most importantly, the system <i>works</i> well together. Like all good (can I say classic?) systems, it will never really go out of date for what it is. Only the death of film could render it obsolete. Anyway, being biased, I think the lenses are excellent, and I wouldn't <i>want</i> to move to another system's lenses. Heck, I even use the Zuikos on my 10D! So, now they can shoot with film or digital: this means that only failing eyesight would stop me using them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 NM, I use Nikon manual focus gear as well. The OM-1 is only a wee bit smaller and lighter than my FM2N - insignificantly so - but considerably smaller and lighter than my F3HP. If we add motor drives the differences really mount up. And the lenses? No comparison. The typical Zuiko with the 49mm filter thread size is smaller in diameter and lighter. No such option with Nikkors. I have a Lowepro Off Trail waist bag. Really nice, compact thing, the bare minimum. My 50/3.5 macro, 28/2.8 and 75-150/4 Zuikos slip easily in and out of the smallish side pockets. My comparable Nikkors may slip into those pockets but I have a heckuva time digging 'em back out. I take the Nikon gear when size, weight and noise don't matter (those metal focal plane shutters really clatter). I use the OM gear mostly for casual shooting when I don't want to be burdened and appreciate the more discrete shutter sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny_c. Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 Just found this Olympus Forum. I guess this is the forum for all Olympus equipments and not limitted to Olympus OM system. In the past I also use the Olympus Stylus Epic. I like it very much. Now I have a near complete tiny OM system (16mm to 300mm, mostly in 49mm filter size) with the Leica M and a few Leica R lenses on Canon EOS body. What I like OM zuiko lenses is that they could be tiny and create excellent results. The metal lens base of zuiko lenses are about 8mm smaller than that of a Canon EF lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n m Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 I thought the mirror slap of the Olympuses was bad enough already. If the old Nikons sound worse, they must have been horrible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecarter Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 I've played with the manual nikon FM's, but always come back to my OM gear - at least so far (I keep toying with newer digital SLR's). Even then, I'll prolly keep my OM's though. As far as mirror slap and shutter noise, while it isn't as quiet as I like, the OM seems to be better for this than the Nikon manual cameras I've played with. I don't know about older Canon or other cameras. OM's light weight and small size are no joke though - I can have my OM-2 with either a 28-80mm zoom or the f/1.8 50mm lens (I LOVE THIS LENS) and the power winder and it is STILL smaller than some manual cameras that don't have the winder. The only thing that I'm ambivalent about is the shutter speed ring on the lens mount. While it's nice to be able to adjust right there, and very convenient most of the time, I find on occasion that I accidentally change my shutter speed when I'm changing the lens aperture as well (doesn't usually happen when I'm focusing though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neild Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 Eric, I've never had the problem of changing the shutter speed when changing the lens aperture - do your lenses have the aperture ring close to the camera? Mine are towards the front of the lens, so there's never a problem! By the way, I love having the shutter speed ring where it is, it's one of the things I really like about OM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.martin___ Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 Thank you for this forum. (And thanks to Neil for his answer on the 21 F2 discussion about the adapter. I haven't made the switch to digital (yet) but had been hesitant to buy any more lenses; I still might not, but at least there is an option.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk_arts Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 Ok- when are we getting the Contax Forum? Must we forever be the ugly stepchildren of Leica (with the supurb optics, j/k)? Do we forever have to wade through the lunarcy of "Camera Equiptment"? *sigh* I fear it will never happen, there just aren't enough of us. Gotta love the stares we get tho "I did not know Canon and Pentax got together!". Long Live Carl Zeiss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwilburn Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 Great to see an Olympus forum! I purchased a pair of OM-1's in the early 70's and still use them. Love the design and size. Now that they're not as fashionable I've been picking up some used Zuiko lenses at reasonably affordable prices and the odd accessory (not always at reasonale prices :). BTW, who's the forum moderator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_tillman Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 I always think of myself as being a Nikon guy, but at last count my family has 5 different OLy cameras, the latest being an e-20. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernando_gonzalez_gentile Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 Congratulations for adding this forum, I felt it was really missing. Rgds, Fernando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neild Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 Just a note to those interested in the OM-EOS adapter (which allows you to mount your OM Zuiko lenses onto a Canon EOS camera, such as the 10D, 300D, etc). There's a <a href="/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=005v7q"><b>thread</b></a> which deals with this subject, including information needed to order the adapter. Any queries specific to the OM-EOS adapter, or information about it that you'd like to contribute, please refer to the above-mentioned thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecarter Posted September 9, 2003 Share Posted September 9, 2003 Neil - now that you mention it, it is a problem that I tend to have ONLY with 3rd party lenses, not with Zuiko lenses. My Soligor and my Sigma lens are the two where that can happen by accident, and they have the aperture ring mounted back a bit - add to that that I have pretty big fingers and sometimes when I'm turning one, I catch the other. I usually notice it fast enough to correct it, but on occasion it still mucks me up. I don't think I've ever lost anything crucial to it, so it's just something you need to be aware of with some lenses I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran_hamill Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Hurrah!!! In the words of the great Budha himself - OM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neild Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 Kieran, great comment! LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_lo_..._t_o Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 Now the question is--and I'm going to try to answer it right here-can we post photos?????<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_lo_..._t_o Posted September 13, 2003 Share Posted September 13, 2003 By the way: OM-2, 3.5 Macro 50, Kodak VC,exposure unrecorded/unremembered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_clapsaddle Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Where have I been the last 2 weeks? An Olympus forum is something I've pined for--for decades I've been nursing my treasured OM 4T's along. Thanks for the initiative, Brian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akochanowski Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 yup, chalk me up too with appreciation for this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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