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M42 or OM-Zuiko mount manual lenses
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A general request, as I’m building up a collection of focal lengths to be used on Canon DSLR on a reasonable budget (rather than as any sort of investment). PM me with what you’ve got and an idea of the price you want for it. I’m only interested in optically clean, mechanically sound ones (although outside cosmetic roughness isn’t an issue if it works well), don’t have the time to dismantle and repair sad cases. A few things I’m particularly interested in:
Helios 40 (85mm f1.5, may be in M39 thread which is OK as I think it can be adapted to M42),
or the similar
Jupiter 9 (85mm f2.0)CZJ Flektogon 35mm f2.4 (M42, not Praktica bayonet)
CZJ Flek 20mm f2.8 or f4.0 (M42)
CZJ Sonnar T 180mm f2.8 (Pentacon 6 mount with M42 adaptor, usually)Any teles over 300mm and fairly fast (e.g. 300mm f4, 400mm f5, 500mm f6.3), although I doubt I’m in the market for really fast Zuiko teles as they still fetch truckloads on eBay. Try me anyway ;)
Zuiko 50mm or 55mm f1.2
Zuiko 18 or 21mm widesOriginal OM or Pentax brand teleconverters (the cheap ones are rubbish, don’t need any more!)
Things I already have and don’t need:
Meyer-Gorlitz Orestor 135mm f2.8 (or Pentacon equivalent)
Helios 44-2 (58mm f2.0)
Zuiko 50mm f1.4
Zuiko 135mm f2.8
Sigma Miniwide 28mm f2.8 OM-mount
Ropey old one-touch 70s zooms by unknown makers ;)NB some of these are quite pricy things (the f1.2 Zuikos go for a heap on eBay) so I’m not in a position to buy loads of stuff at once, but if you have nice stuff gathering dust and may want to sell it sometime, still let me know. Thanks!!
Steve,
Any chance you could let us know a bit about how you use these lenses on Canon?
I’ve got an OM Kit languishing away,
including a few nice primes-
!80/2.8, 100/2 –
and might be interested in using them on a canon body.Any experience of these lenses in particular?
Are teles better than wides?
are the adapters easy to use- presumably you’d have one for each lens?Your thoughts and experiences would be much appreciated-
joseph
They’re fairly easy to use. Get a decent adaptor (and you don’t have to spend big money: many of the reasonably priced Chinese made adaptors are fine, just make sure you get one that’s chromed brass or steel, not aluminium). Obviously you need to get the hang of manual focus (although you can get adaptors with chips which fool the camera into thinking it’s got an EF lens mounted and give you focus confirmation beeps). Forget about wide open metering. It’s stop-down metering all the way, but you’ll soon get into the hang of focussing wide open (so you can see your focus point) then stopping down and dialling in a bit of -ve exposure compensation (you need to be shooting in aperture priority or manual mode). Most lenses need -1 or up to -2 EV compensation, depending on how far they stop down. -1 for f/16 is about right, -2 for f/22 to 32.
Old teles can be prone to purple fringing, old zooms can be terrible unless they’re very good, but wides are generally OK. Your OMs sound like nice fast lenses, so they’ll probably perform well stopped down slightly, and still be good wide open if the light’s poor. I don’t have either of the ones you mention; I generally use old M42 lenses for the bigger teles as they’re cheaper! I have Zuiko 50/1.4 and 135/2.8 lenses and they work pretty well.
The plain adaptor shouldn’t cost much more than ?20 delivered (although you’ll pay more for Cameraquest or Kindai branded ones, and the focus confirmation chip ones generally go for around ?60-70).
Thanks for that Steve,
some useful information there,
though I might have to get the camera before I get the adapterPlenty to digest anyway-
I’m used to the MF with these ones anyway-
Can’t wait to try them on digital-Many thanks again-
j
If you don’t get on with it, I might be interested in taking those off your hands some time after Christmas ;) You can never have enough fast teles! See how it works out for you though. You might want to keep them!
Oh I’m sure you would Steve :)
But since I got my first OM2 in 1979 (and about 7 other OM cameras since then)
I don’t think I’ll ever part with them.
Even tho they’re now (quite unexpectedly) appreciating in value.One of the lenses we share is the 135/2.8, how does that one work out with you?
Do you use a FF or a crop Canon?j
30D. I need to disassemble and clean the 135 as it has a wee bit of fungus inside (I think) the back element and quite a bit of dust (a neighbour gave it to me when he was clearing out his attic). So it’s a bit low on contrast but is still a nice unobtrusive portrait lens. Much smaller than my (cleaner and sharper) Meyer 135.
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