[Leica] Re: Pen F lenses on the 330

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

Olympus made an adapter to use the OM lenses on the Pen. I have one. 
There were several aftermarket adapters to use other full size SLR 
lenses on this petite 1/2 frame camera. But it works only one way 
because of the relative short lens flange to film distance of the Pen. 
To the best of my knowledge there was no Pen to LTM adapter that would 
permit infinity focus.

The flange to sensor distance of the 4/3 system is 38.67 mm. The 
distance for the Oly Pen is 28.95 mm. That for the Olympus OM series is 
46.0 mm. And of course the distance for the Leica M is 27.8 mm and the 
Leica screw is 28.8 mm. This means that an adapter can be constructed 
for the 4/3 system for any lens with a flange to film distance of 38.67 
mm or greater. This includes lenses for the OM cameras and most others 
built for full frame SLR cameras but obviously not the Leica or Pen 
lenses. So all of us who fantasized about using our Leica RF lenses on 
a 4/3 system, whether made by Olympus, Panasonic, Fuji, Kodak, or 
Leica, are out of luck.

Larry Z


On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:58 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> Larry,
> I thought that Olympus sold an adapter to allow the use of the old Pen 
> F
> lenses.  I know that you can use the old OM series with an adapter.  
> Usual
> caveats about stop down metering etc.
>
> OK, it takes two adapters.  You first go from Pen to LTM then LTM to 
> 4/3.  I
> suspect that a good machinist could make this for you cheaper.  Say 
> Ken Ruth
> over at Bald Mountain.
>
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
>