[Leica] Olympus M 4/3rds - some adapter silliness

[olivegm3 at yahoo.ca (joe leung)]

Thanks, Howard. 

Regarding doing lunch, I love to and I'll email you separately?to set up a 
mutually convenient time.

Best Regards,

Joe L.




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From: H&ECummer <cummer@netvigator.com>
To: lug@leica-users.org
Cc: joe leung <olivegm3@yahoo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 7:31:20 AM
Subject: [Leica] Olympus M 4/3rds - some adapter silliness

Hi Joe,
The picture of the mockup is from Photokina. There is no viewfinder on the 
mockup but in the diagrams below there appears to be. I have the panasonic 
G1 and the adapter from Ray Qual to fit M lenses on the G1. It has an 
Electronic View finder which I was prepared to hate based on my experience 
with the old Lumix L1 but as I use the G1 I have grown to accept the EVF. I 
think the Oly will be of more limited value if it does not have an EVF as 
well as the live view screen on the back. The short distance between lens 
bayonet mount and CCD (20mm) means that a whole bunch of lenses can be 
attached with various combinations of adapters. Here is an example.
I just got a 19mm Elmarit R (Version 1) (the version which doesn't catch the 
mirrors of full frame digital SLRs) and with a borrowed novoflex R to M 
adapter (thank you Ray) I have mounted the Elmarit with the novoflex adapter 
via the Ray Qual adapter in the G1. Please see:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/M+Lenses+to+Micro+4-3rds/19ElmaritRonG1w.jpg.html
http://tinyurl.com/aytn89

You might ask why would anyone want to do that? Well, the simple answer is 
because one can! :-)
Eventually I will change the bayonet on the Elmarit to a Nikon one (from 
Leitax.com) and use the lens (along with my remaining R lenses also with 
changed bayonets) on my Nikon D700. Then I won't care how long it takes 
Leica to bring out the digital R and if and when that camera arrives and I 
am seduced into buying it I can put the Leica bayonets back on the R lenses. 
The Leica digital R will have to be awfully good to be better than the D700 
I observe.
Shall we have lunch and I can show you this stuff?
Cheers
Howard

> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 04:16:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: joe leung <olivegm3@yahoo.ca>
> Subject: [Leica] Olympus M 4/3?
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> 
> Take a look at this:
> 
> http://news.fengniao.com/118/1187711.html
> 
> This Chinese site claims that Oly is producing this M4/3 camera. True or 
> false? Anyone heard of this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joe L.
> 


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