T Bolts Pics

[T Bolt]

Nice work Glenn.
I really miss my Olympus gear, and like you, I would have loved a digital back kit.
Here's my stuff, which I used for 30 years.


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Looks like you have some nice stuff there Terry, what are those, OM-1's or 2's? I'll have to pull my stuff out and take some pictures of it. I still take out my OM-1 every once in a while and set it to a slow shutter speed just to listen to that clock work shutter.
I never could understand why nobody ever came out with a digital pick up back for the OM cameras. The backs were removable on all of them I believe except for the OM-10, and there would have been room for a battery and electronics in the area for the film canaster and take up real.

 

[special ed]

The company does not get to sell another camera. My complaint is that the digitals will not accept the old lens mount.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots Glenn!

 

[macharvard]

When I started my historical research 40 years ago, I had 2 Pentax K1000s and a semi-auto MEF. After shooting several thousand frames of negative, positive, colour, and black and white , they all still work perfectly, but I can't find useful film in southwestern (not quite backwoods) Ontario. I finally allowed myself the luxury of a Nikon D3200 and I use it so seldom that I have to read the manual every time in order to get beyond the '0n' switch. Maybe I shouldn't mention that I could do valve jobs on my cars 40 years ago and now an oil change is daunting. Oh, for a time machine.

 

[Airframes]

Glenn, they were OM-1 with motor drive, and a OM-1N, bought in 1980, with 35mm, 50mm. 135mm and 300mm lenses, and extension tubes, close-up lenses etc etc.
These replaced my earlier Pentax SLRs.
I now use two Nikon DSLRs, with 18-55mm and 55-300mm Nikon lenses, both cameras being 24mpx, having ( regretfully ) sold the Olympus kit to a collector about 12 years ago.

 

[Snautzer01]

The company does not get to sell another camera. My complaint is that the digitals will not accept the old lens mount.

Try a lens adapter. Old Glass: How to Use Old Film Lenses with New DSLR Cameras

 

[special ed]

Thanks for the great news. I have boxes of lenses from the film days.

 

[T Bolt]

Try a lens adapter. Old Glass: How to Use Old Film Lenses with New DSLR Cameras

I have adapters for both my Olympus E-620 and Lumex GF2 Cameras so I can use my old OM system lenses on them.

Here are some pictures I took a week ago with the GF2 and my Olympus Zuiko 55mm F 1.2 lens
I just love that lens! it does some crazy back-ground and for-ground blurring when you shoot with the aperture opened up all the way like I did with these pictures. The depth of field is extremely short at F 1.2 so focusing can be hard with out the old split focusing bullseye of the old film SLRs.

 

[Crimea_River]

Very cool Glenn.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice pics Glenn and with the blurred background it's as though everything is floating.

 

[Wurger]

 

[T Bolt]

I'll be putting that 1.2 lens on the E-620 this weekend and taking it for a walk so should have more pictures soon.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely shots Glenn!

 

[T Bolt]

A few more pictures taken last weekend. This time with my Olympus E-620. The first two were taken at dusk with the kit lens wile the rest were taken using that old Olympus F 1.2 with the aperture all the way open.

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

WOW!!!!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Some great shots.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots Glenn!

 

[T Bolt]

I really miss my Olympus gear, and like you, I would have loved a digital back kit.
Here's my stuff, which I used for 30 years.


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I pulled my old Olympus equipment out this weekend and went trough it so here it is:

OM-2S Program (Spot Program for you guys in Europe) with a power winder, power bounce flash bracket and two T-32 flashes. I used this setup when I was taking pictures of my kids doings in large rooms such as gyms of auditoriums. In the first picture it has a Zuiko 50mm f1.4 and in the second picture a Vivitar 28mm to 200mm
f3.5 to f5.3 zoom

My second OM-2S body with a Zuiko 50mm f1.4 lens. These OM-2S's were my favorites and I used the he!! out of them.

Two OM-10's, both with Zuiko 50mm f1.8 lenses. The first is my first 35mm SLR I bought used when I was in collage when I stepped up from using a Vivitar 110. Big improvement!
The second one is equipped with a manual shutter speed adapter. I bought it shortly after collage so I could run two different film ASA's when visiting museums. I shot a lot of rolls of 1000 and 1600 speed film in this one.

My pristine OM-1. I bought it totally refurbished with new real leather on the body and a Zuiko 50mm f1.4. Unfortunately I didn't get to use this one that much because it wasn't too much later that I went to digital because film was getting just too expensive, but I did get play around with it some using various filters and really came to love using it. There is nothing like the sound of the clockwork shutter.

The Zuiko 55mm f1.2 lens that I have been playing around with on my DLSR and Mirrorless cameras lately. The lens glass actually was made with thorium and IS radioactive. I checked it out with my Giger counter and it does set it off.

Soligor Wide Auto 28mm f2.8 and Vivitar 135mm f2.8 Telephoto that still has the micro 4/3 convertor on it from a couple of weeks ago.

On top is a Vivitar 28mm to 200mm f3.5 to f5.3 Macro Focusing Zoom. I caried this lens on one of the OM-2S's around in my work truck for years.
Bottom is a Vivatar 75mm to 200mm zoom I bought right out of collage for my first OM-10

Cambron 38mm to 95mm Wide Telephoto and a couple of 2x converters

Olympus Varimagni Finder. This neat little thing clips onto the viewfinder letting you look into it at various angles and also magnifies the vies with a flip of a lever

A couple of more flashes. A T-20 I used before I had the T-32's and a Vivitar Auto Thyrister 3700 I used before I had the T-20.

Some various flash accessories

And last a accessory focusing screen and a couple of viewfinder eye cups

There is also a couple of after market lenses I know I have but wasn't able to locate for the pictures, a 20mm wide angle and a 300mm zoom

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Lot of good equipment there.