Will a panasonic lumix m4/3 lens fit and work on an Olympus omd em10 mkii camera.

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Hi all,

Due to disability I have had to give up using my nikon dslr.
I have bought an Olympus omd em 10 mkii and need to know if the above lens is compatible with the camera.

I seem to remember that it is but need confirmation before I buy it.

I hope you can help.....

Thanks
John
 
Yes it will, no problem
 
Yes it will, and vice versa. I have a Panasonic body, but all my lenses now are Olympus :-)

Simon.
 
Yes, the whole point of 4/3 and m4/3 is that it is a standard so any m4/3 lens will fit any m4/3 camera.
 
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Just don't get confused buying second hand FOUR THIRDS (No Micro) equipment. It wont fit with out an adapter.
 
Thanks Stumpy, that's one of the reasons I wanted confirmation for.
I'm new to the micro four thirds world having only used Olympus OM film cameras and Nikon dslrs.

Cheers all,
John
 
You could still use your old Zuiko lenses with a £7 adapter off eBay. Manual focus and step down with the pre-view lever. Have the body set to apature priorety so it sets the shutter speed. Remember the 1.5x magnification factor with old film lenses. An old 50mm appears like a 75mm. Some great old glass, and a certain perverse satisfaction focusing a f 1.4 lens manualy, especially if you have some thing like "Focus peaking", were a small part of the view finder is enlarged while you focus. You even have in body IS unlike my Lumix G6! Its all part of the fun of m4/3.

Finaly, recamend you read through the Olympus and Panasonic m4/3's threads in the equipment section. You'll be as ex-spert as the rest of us then! :thinking:

Stumpy
 
Sorry duff info there. It's 2x mag for old lenses, so a 50mm acts like a 100mm.
Reason? I'm a silly old duffer and have been reading up on a different system a lot. :oops: :$
 
Hi Stumpy,

Wow, that's something I didn't know.
I still have my OM20 and lenses so will look for the adapter and try out my old lenses. Sounds like a bit of experimentation is in order with the bonus of possibly getting some good pictures.

I'll also search out the thread you mentioned to get more info.
Your certainly not a silly old duffer, your a mine of good information.
I like to learn about photography "stuff" too so will be searching around the site too. I consider my self an "old duffer" too as I have just turned 50 but your never to old to learn I think.

Cheers
John
 
Just to confuse you even further, John, there's a chance that your old Nikon DSLR was a crop body (Dx) and if so, would have had a crop factor of 1.5x, making a 50mm lens have the same FoV as a 75mm lens on your old 35mm film bodies. The same 50mm lens on an m4/3 body will have the same FoV as a 100mm lens on your old 35mm film bodies...

To help reduce confusion, think of a 25mm lens as being a "standard" lens in the same way as a 50mm used to be on 35mm, so anything wider is a wide angle and anything longer is a telephoto.
 
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