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Zuiko - eos adaptor, more questions


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I wonder when you use this adaptor, is it on a lens or on the body?

Do I have to buy one adaptor for each zuiko lens?

Second thing - do you know any cheaper alternatives for 175$ one? I

know there are nikkor - eos adaptors for about 30$.

Thanks!

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I use one and it can stay on the lens or the body. If you depress the lens release on the Canon body, the lens and adapter come off together. Or, you can remove the Zuiko lens as you would on an OM body and replace it with another Zuiko lens.

 

I've not seen any cheaper ones, but the Kindai one is well made and if you have a few Zuiko lenses, it pays for itself fairly quickly.

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I got one Chinese made one for $100 a couple month back. Works fine and has infinity focus. It works similar to the Nikon-EOS adapter where it could share with a few lens. You do have to take off the lens with the adapter in order to move the adapter to a different lens on that adapter.

 

The ebay seller was happypagehk

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Igor, you have asked about cheapness many times before! Firstly, I have never seen a cheap version (the one for Nikon probably can be made on a much larger scale as there are many more Nikon users than there are Olympus users - the economies of scale!). Secondly, the adapter is 2mm thick: would you trust a big lens (or any lens) on a cheap aluminium adapter 2mm thick? Snap, bang, crash... and you can buy another lens at the same time you're ordering your new adapter and save on postage...

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Besides this, once you've got your adapter at whatever cost, you only need one of them: mine stays on the camera, and I change lenses as normal (Olympus lenses can do this as they have the button on them: all other lenses like Nikon need to do it the hard way, so perhaps they do need one adapter per lens). Anyone who tells you that you need one for each lens is just looking to make more money. So, now that you know that you only need one adapter, perhaps you can afford to buy one at $175?

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But you must have been asking this question for 12 months by now - perhaps more! I'm not saying don't shop around: of course you should get a good deal, but on the other hand, you must have spent $$$ on your lenses. If your cheap adapter breaks and drops your lens on the floor, then that would already have cost you more than $175 I think. Naturally, I don't really mind what you do - it's your money and your equipment. I just wonder why you keep asking? You have more of an interest in this quest it seems than anyone else, so we should actually be asking you if there's a cheaper adapter available, instead of you asking us: you must know more than anybody else about this subject by now! Be assured that I meant no offence, but I'm just surprised to see you back after a whole year and still no further along...

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I really do wish you luck to find this adapter, but I spent enough on my lenses not to trust their health on a $25 cheap adapter. Anyway, good luck and peace be with you!

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I had problesm with the cheap chinese adapters off Ebay, my 21mm F3.5 would not focus at infinity at wide open apertures and I couldn't mount my 35mm shift F2.8 lens onto the adapter, despite it fitting all my other zuikos - the bayonet flange clearance was all wrong strange but true.

 

I splashed out for the expensive Cameraquest unit and it solved all my problems

 

Mike

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As I said, I really do wish you luck finding this adapter. If you really want one for cheaper than $175, then ebay must be your best chance.

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I just found this <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Olympus-OM-Adapter-fuer-CANON-EOS-Kameras-NEU_W0QQitemZ7559977947QQcategoryZ26054QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"><b>adapter</b></a> for you! It's currently selling for EUR 14.51, perhaps this would be OK?

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Has anyone read about or actually used the 4/3 Oly adapter with

a Tamron 300/2.8 or 400/4? I am wondering what focusing

issues there are. I don't have any of the Digi slr Olympus bodies

and am very curious about difficulties focusing for the bigger

faster/lenses

Thanks in advance.

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