How To Adapt Vintage/Manual Focus Lenses to OM System Olympus /Cameras ep. 444 

Thanks Rob, great informative vid as usual. Great tip about use of manual zooms thank you.

Yet another great info packed video from the Pharaoh of Photography!!!!

Thank you very much. I'm sure many will appreciate your teachings. Thank you again. Rodney from Brazil

Hi Rob. Thanks so much for such a comprehensive video. I have started using my old lenses on my EM1 mk2. You always go the extra mile with your tutorials compared to other RU-vid photographers. My questions about zoom lenses and aperture settings all covered so clearly in your video. Thank you.

Lots of good tips and information in this Rob, thank you! So glad you are getting away from those 2+ hours gab fests, this series is so much better.

Thank you Rob for your very comprehensive reply! I really appreciate it. Now I understand more the different S-IS settings, also why to set the IBIS according to the the focal length of the lens.

Very useful! Thank you

Excellent tutorial, just donated!

Good one Rob. I occasionally use a few old OM lenses but never knew about inputting the lens info into the IBIS. Thanks and as always very helpful.

Rob, thanks! Really nice video. I recently purchased a couple vintage lenses. Your guide helped me correctly set up my OM-5 for the lenses.

Great tips for the unfamiliar menu settings. I recently got an Olympus OMD EM10 for use with my Olympus lenses. I've had to order an adapter for OM to M43 so I can use them on this great little camera. Always loved Olympus glass so can't wait to get using it.

Finally found 'lens info' under H1 in my EM1ii 🤦thanks to your tips Rob! Typical of OM menus to use a different letter on your PEN-F and to double-entry the focal length in stabilisation INFO setting. A bit messy, and the most annoying thing is, I know I'll forget this 👴.

I currently have an OM-1, an EM mark X, an em 1 mark iii and a Pen F. That Pen is my favorite camera. It is so easy to use. I am not a professional but I am an enthusiast. I just love the controls on the Pen F. Keep making these videos! I just ordered an OM to mft adapter to use my 35mm f2 and my 50mm f3.5 macro.

I am by no means anything other than an amateur. However, in all the years I have been using micro 4/3 with my old vintage manual lenses. I never learned about putting the number of the lens into the Ibis system. Thank you so much for this information. I have so enjoyed all the info that you have shared with all the camera equipment you use

Well, I just bought a hands free magnifier, and I happen to have an extra lens. I have no choice at this point, except to take my $75 lens to a camera store to fix it for $75...Thanks for all your great content. I'm on Social Security, so thanks will have to do, but I appreciate the material you present.

Thanks for this video !!! I use lots of vintage lens on my EM10 MarkII, but I was unsure what setting to change when using a zoom lens. ? This video certainly clarified my question. Thanks !!!!

Thanks Rob. This is very timely and useful as I’ve also been watching another channel called Zenography and have just purchased my first vintage lens - an OM 135mm f3.5 in lovely condition from eBay. Your tutorials are always spot on.

Thanks

I use legacy lenses a fair amount of the time. Aperture priority does allow you to have the camera set most of the exposure parameters automatically. Another way to set the camera up is to set it to shutter priority (S) and Auto Iso. This allows you to have the back dial adjust shutter speed and the front dial adjust exposure compensation and let the Iso be determined by the camera. If you don't like the Iso setting you can adjust either the shutter speed or the aperture to change it. I have the viewfinder show what the exposure looks like and can dial in compensation with the front dial if I want to adjust it. I guess the only advantage over manual mode is it allows you to have exposure comp on the front dial. When using manual zoom lenses I will set the IBIS to the focal length range I think I will be using the most and then use the super control panel to adjust it quickly if I change from it. For situations where I am changing the focal length quickly I will turn off the IBIS and use the reciprocal rule as you mention. These modern digital cameras allow us to have so many more options than we had when shooting film.

Takk!

Rob, Your guide has helped me a lot. One area where I am having challenges is when I use my vintage lenses in low light. I use Aperture priority on an OM-5. When the light gets low, and I take the photo, the image comes out really bright. For example, if the recommended shutter speed is 1/2 second, when I snap the photo, the image is way too bright. I'm not sure why.

Rob: Another question. When using zoom lenses I understand that you suggest turning image stabilization off, and if picking lets say 50mm from the zoom, use 100 sec shutter speed in manual mode. Can you also accomplish this by using shutter priority and setting the proper speed or do you have to be in manual mode ? Lastly on my EM10 MarkII using vintage lenses, I can't always tell if peaking is on. Yes, I have assigned the FN1 button to peaking. I have the color set to yellow. Perhaps I just need to experiment with another color. It would be nice if a little "P" would appear on the SCP when its on and disappear when its off.

Thanks Rob! Always very informative. I recenly bought the TTartisan 17mm 1.4 for Olympus. I this case I don't need an adaptor as I can put the lens directly onto my E-M1 mrk II. Honestly I don't fully understand why I need to put in the aparture number in the IBIS? I used the lens with S-IS2 and got very good pictures? Probably I'm missing some knowledge in this area. Where can I get this missing data? Some people advice to put it on S-IS1 and some suggest to put it on S-IS2 which is a bit confusing.

I have a speed reducer for Cannon EF to MFT. It works pretty good, but If I use a second adaptor like Minolta to EF, then EF to MFT I get a blank black screen as if no light is passing through. I can see the light passing through the lens when not attached to the camera. I have many Sony "A" mount lenses but nobody makes a speed reducer adapter for them.

Rob what about if we use manual lens with 2.0 teleconverter? Should we put doubled focal lenght in IS? Thanks.

Dear Rob! Love your videos already many years. I have a omd em5 mark II and a few pro lenses. I’d like to have another body mainly for fixed lenses like a 17 mm. What would you suggest to get? I was thinking even to go for the fujifilm XV but I would rather prefer to stay in the Olympus world if possible.

Hi Rob, When putting the lens info into camera with the 12-100 f4 what focal length should I put in, 12mm or 100mm?

Hi Rob, In your tutorial you show a lens with a speed booster on, can you explain what this adapter does please.

Thanks Rob for this excellent tutorial. At 8:15, please can you clarify these features (e.g. lens info setting)... should it be in E-M5iii but NOT in E-M5ii, thank you. I own an E-M5iii(rel. 2019) which has these features. I have checked E-M5ii(rel. 2015) user manual which no "lens info setting" function. As far as I know PEN-F(rel. Jan 2016) is the first Olympus camera that can set lens info. Even earlier than E-M1ii which released later in 2016.

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This Is seriously off topic, but... Is there a disassembly reassembly guide for the Olympus 14-42 lens? One of our cats knocked my little Olympus PEN camera off the end table where I had it and damaged the lens. Lesson learned, but I keep (kept) it there to photograph our pets and the occasional elk that happens through our front yard. Any way, many many thanks for your videos and info.

Hi Rob, I try to take rear-sync flash on Olympus E-M1 Mark III but I don’t think it can do it. Usually I do light painting photography in LiveComp and take long exposure around 8”, I want flash will flash before the end. I see Sony can do it. Thanks and great support

one item you didn't address was the aperture at which exposures are made. If a 90mm f2.0 Zuiko is attached via the adapter, will all exposures be made at f2.0 since there is no way for my OM-D E1 Mark II to activate the aperture control lever on the lens? Or is the aperture ring to be set to the desired aperture and then the preview button on the lens to be depressed in advance of making the exposure? Thanks for any guidance you can give. I still have my two OM-3's and seven Zuiko prime lenses so you answer will largely determine the feasibility of using them on the OM-D E1 Mark II.

Hello Rob, Another brilliant interesting tutorial thanks. I have been an amateur photographer since the OM1 35mm SLR appeared giving you some idea I am an old fellow now. Along the way I had Nikon gear but their DSLR bricks eventually brought me back into the wonderful micro 4/3 world with E-M1s. On the topic I have various lenses from the past but am dead worried about fungus from one lens getting into the camera and "infecting" others. Is this an issue in your opinion. Many old SLR lenses have had poor treatment and storage and have some or a lot of fungus. My understanding is to stay well away from such lenses. For example in my mother in laws cupboard of photo gear was found a mint mechanically superb long Nikon lens but sadly faffected by fungus. Many thanks. Do you have a Patreon facility?

With an adapted zoom, couldn't you have several entries at several lengths?

Hello Rob, I've heard that on the OM-D EM1 mk 1, the focus peaking doesn't work with vintage or, rather, with any non-electronic lens. Is this true, and if yes, then is there a way around it? I've just sold EM10 mk2 and was about to buy an EM1 mk1. Thank you.

i really don't get it why my vintage lens dont work in my dad em5 mark2 but,it work really well in my em 10 mark 2

Why can the EM1 mark iii only go to 6400 auto ISO? Seems weird to me, the budget cameras can go all the way to 25600.

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