Traut
Well-known
I have suggested this for a while and have been *** ***'ed. I hope this is more than vaporware.
http://43rumors.com/ft3-olympus-pat...ed-wide-lens-and-adapter-with-swd-auto-focus/
http://43rumors.com/ft3-olympus-pat...ed-wide-lens-and-adapter-with-swd-auto-focus/
Andy Kibber
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Very interesting indeed. I'll believe it when I see it! 
Wow, that would be nice if it works well and without compromise.
dogberryjr
[Pithy phrase]
A 50mm is a 50mm?? Sign me up. I'll check back later to see who is going to rain on this parade and tell us why it's technically impossible to build such a thing.
andredossantos
Well-known
Whoa! Thanks for posting.
Please let this be real!
Please let this be real!
Traut
Well-known
This will be of major financial implication as well for Oly. It will kill the independant lens adapter market for the most part. The market will be all m4/3 manufacturers and perhaps the other players like Sony and Samsung if the patent will hold up.
I had this idea a year or so ago if you check the old posts. I was told it wasn't applicable but I still thought it had merit.
I had this idea a year or so ago if you check the old posts. I was told it wasn't applicable but I still thought it had merit.
squirrel$$$bandit
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It's not impossible at all, it will just degrade the image. It's not so much an adapter as a device to turn your lens into a different lens, with an extra element in it.
It's not a new idea--if I remember right, one of the really early DSLR's had an element in it to do exactly this. Results were not said to be very good, though.
It's not a new idea--if I remember right, one of the really early DSLR's had an element in it to do exactly this. Results were not said to be very good, though.
My Nikon E3 works this way. It uses "Reduction Optics" to make a smaller CCD into a full-frame camera. The Reduction optic must sit at the image plane, so the camera is big. This could be done with an adapter, but it will be relatively big as the image will focus within the adapter and then be reduced in size.
The TC-16AF is an autofocus adapter for the F3AF, converts a manual focus lens to AF. But it required a 1.6x teleconvertor.
The TC-16AF is an autofocus adapter for the F3AF, converts a manual focus lens to AF. But it required a 1.6x teleconvertor.
squirrel$$$bandit
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Thank you! I just spent 10 minutes googling to try to remember what camera this was. More info here.
It seems certain that adapters with an element like this will be much larger than ones without, which kind of defeats the purpose of m4/3--at least the purpose as I see it.