Olympus OM lenses on digital

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My dad has handed me his Olympus OM1, in the bag there are 3 lenses: a Zuiko 24mm f2.8, Zuiko 50mm f1.8 and a Zuiko 135mm.

I know you can get adapters for these lenses to fit the OM digitals, my question is how much of a hassle would it be using these manual lenses?
 
No problem at all, just totally manual focus!
The 50mm is particularly good on my Olympus e-pl5.
The adapters are cheap enough to give it a try.

Have a read of THIS
 
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Thanks. Suddenly an OM-D becomes seriously tempting...

Good link too.
 
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The 50mm is very nice - well worth a few pounds for the adapter ring for that alone.
I like it on my 5Dii
 
They are full frame lenses, there were no cropped sensors back in those days :)
 
Yes as they are full frame lenses so they work fine on a full frame camera. I used to use an OM 24mm f2.8, 28mm f2.8 and 50mm f1.8 on my 20D and EOS 3. The 24 was particularly stunning, utterly destroyed the 17-40 L I had at the time. I still have them but having moved to nikon I can no longer use them without mount conversion.
 
I have all of those lenses and they work well on my Panasonic Micro Four Thirds cameras. I briefly used them on my Canon 5D and although the results were pretty good IMO manual focusing with modern DSLR's (with no focus aids) is pretty awful for anything other than macro of pseudo macro stuff when the subject is big in the frame and accurate focus is easy to judge.

Manual focusing with an EVF is much easier and as long as you have time to manually focus the results can be very good :D I use mine with a cheap adapter I sourced on evil bay for about £10. Actually I also use these lenses on my Sony A7 via a Novoflex adapter.

The 24mm f2.8 is very probably the most expensive lens of the three, I've seen lots for around the £90-100 mark.
 
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