Olympus 50 200mm

The lens is heavy and comes with a little support handle thing on the bottom. I don't want to do damage to my camera by using it without the adapter but it seems fine without it.

The Olympus 50-200mm is not that large of a lens to cause any problems with your Olympus Evolt 500 camera body's mount. If you were adapting some heavier 70-300mm lens from the film days, I'd be concerned.

As stated above, the 'adaptor' is actually a mounting place for a tripod or monopod. That moves the center of balance forward and puts less strain on your camera. Use it, when you can. Monopods are compact and can be carried easily.

By the way, it's a great lens and should give you many, many wonderful images. Enjoy!

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2007-07-18 12:30:20 by van

The sound of the Olympus 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 digital Zuiko lens, focusing.

Can I use the following lenses on my digital SLR - Olympus OM10 plus 2 standard 50 mm lenses plus Tamron 200mm, Hoya Macro Zoom 80-200 mm, Mirand Macro Zoom 28-85 mm, Kalimar Macro Zoom 35-200 mm, Vivitar x 2 converter, Vivitar 49 mm UV-Haze filter

Hiya, you should be able to via the OM convertor which costs £99.

You will lose automatic metering (you will need to use the stop down method) and there will be a conversion factor of 2, which means that your lenses all become more telephoto (so that your 50mm behave more like 100mm and so on)

You are also using lenses which were designed for film, which was easier to direct light onto than digital sensors, the upshot of this is that you are likely to get vingetting (a darkening of the corners as the light fails to bend onto the individual photosites) and colour fringing (where light of different wavelength hit the sensor at different points, again down to the light striking the sensor at an angle it wasn;t designed to recieve light from)

In short, I wouldn't bother, the advice of sticking to four thirds types lenses is good. Even expensive Olympus OM lenses would have similar problems.

2007-08-01 02:34:19 by madamezoie

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