Olympus E400(lens question)

• suzieb

  Member

  June 13, 2008 at 11:55 am

  Hi hoping someone might be able to help me out here.

  My dads a keen photographer and uses the olympus e400 camera. He was interested to know if there is any alternative to purchasing olympus lenses-he recently met a man who has the same camera and this guy told him that he uses a Lens Adapter.
  Does anyone think that using a lens adapter is worthwhile or when possible he should save his money to buy olympus lenses only?

  I hope this makes sense as I’m not used to posting online about something i know very little about.

  Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks
  Suzanne
  Rob

  Member

  June 13, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  Hi Suzanne…

  I’m an Olympus user and I also use some old lenses with an adaptor. The adaptor is
  called the OM-MF1 as far as I know, but there are all sorts of cheap ones available on
  ebay for as little as a fiver and they work perfectly well. I have about four old OM-System
  lenses for Olympus that I use on both the E-3 and the E-500 and they’re fantastic if you
  don’t have any issues with manual focus. The newer Olympus lenses for the fourthirds
  system are pretty expensive all right. I have two kit lenses that I don’t use anymore,
  a 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 and a 40-150mm f/3.5-6.3, so if he’s interested in either of those
  let me know as they’re just gathering dust under the bed at the moment…

  Rob.