Anyone Using Olympus OM Lenses on Canon 6D?

[Dave Jenkins]

The title says it all. I'm using several Olympus OM lenses (24/f2.8, 50/f1.8, 75-150/f4) via a Fotodiox adapter with focus-confirmation on a Canon 6D. If anyone else is doing something similar, I'd like to hear how it's working out for you. Pros and cons!

 

[lynnb]

Dave, will be soon, have adapter, haven't got around to playing yet. Will let you know.
Cheers,

 

[f16sunshine]

I've used adapted OM's and other lenses on Eos Bodies for years. It's a very useful way to make use of legacy glass.
Although atm, I own a 5Dii rather than 6D,.... I imagine the experience and results are very similar.
OM lenses adapt very well compared to some others. You literally pop the adapter into the eos mount and the camera is now ready to be a dedicated OM body if you wish.
The latest AF emulation chips even allow one to program exif data and adjust "microfocus" for confirmation 'blip".
It all works very nicely

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I tried it on my 5DmkII, and decided it wasn't worth the bother. The camera cannot stop down the aperture, so you have to manually open the aperture to focus then stop it down to take the picture. For all that trouble, the image quality I got was no better than I got with the Canon lenses I own.

 

[Particular]

I use OM lenses on an A7r. I'm mainly using the 35mm and 24mm shift lenses. Even on OM bodies they don't have a coupled aperture, instead they have a locking preview button. You unlock it to focus, and then lock it to shoot. It works well, but requires a little more concentration. With regular OM lenses, you could remove the cam in the adapter that closes the aperture, and then just press the preview button on the lens before the shot. I may get a second adapter too have one with the cam and one without.

 

[TXForester]

I don't have a 6D, but use them on a 10D and T3. With a focus confirmation adapter they make a good alternative to fast EF lenses when you are on a budget. I have a 50/1.8 and 100/2.8. I also use a Vivitar 28/2.8 and 70-210/3.5 with the OM mount.

 

[Dave Jenkins]

I'm willing to accept a bit of inconvenience in exchange for the savings in size and weight of the OM lenses vs. Canon lenses.

Also, it forces me to slow down and think more about what I'm doing. For me, shooting digitally with auto-everything makes it too easy to spray and pray. I feel that my best work was done in the '80s and '90s, when almost every shot was incident-metered and bracketed.

I find that the focus confirmation on my Fotodiox adapter works so well at apertures up to f8 that when working outdoors or in good light I don't need to open up to focus and then close down to shoot. After f8, it doesn't work at all. Does anyone know why this is?

All of this, however, is just an intermediate stage on my way to a Sony A7.

 

[taemo]

I bought a couple of AI-S adapters for the 5D with EE-S screen as I'm planning to use my CV 20mm, 28mm 2.8, 50mm 1.4 and 105mm 2.5, however as it was mentioned earlier, the issue with legacy lenses on Canon is that you manually have to step-down the lens.
If I want to pack light for landscape, I might just bring the CV 20mm and EF 28-105, that way I'll need to carry only 2 lenses instead of 4.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Well known topic on P.O.T.N. I did it with 5D and 500D.
Pros, it is very cheap and light weighted, while lens build is classic. Cons - lenses are not as good as modern ones in terms of IQ and aperture doesn't open-close.
It was reasonable to use UWA OM lens for me, but at 50mm and longer Canon have better and not so expensive lenses.