Adapting Lenses to Micro Four Thirds

Adapting Lenses to Micro Four Thirds
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The short registration distance of Micro Four Thirds (20mm from mount to sensor) makes it possible to adapt a wide variety of SLR and rangefinder lenses for use with this format without a need for interposed optics.

Vivek Iyer has been experimenting with a homemade Leica M to M43 adapter and producing excellent results with a Canon 50mm f/0.95 rangefinder lens on his Panasonic G1 (link).

A recent issue of Nippon Camera contained the following photos of various lenses adapted to the G1:

Source: Photofan.jp forums

The G1 provides a magnified EVF view of the central portion of the image, which allows for precise manual focusing. I'd like to see Panasonic drop the vestigial rangefinder-like dependence on center focusing and allow the user to select any of the 23 AF points for magnification when focusing manually.

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oluv · 854 weeks ago

now if i had some of these old lenses, this would indeed be an interesting solution...

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rondo · 854 weeks ago

yet another reason to hope that olympus comes up with their m43-because the G1 really looks idiotic with these serious lenses. (purely from aesthetic point of view). of course there is still hope that panasonic can come up with a m43 version of DMC-L1.

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