[Leica] Re: Oly E500

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Jun 1, 2007, at 2:41 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> Consider the Oly E500 which comes with two wide angle lenses at around
> US $ 649.00 - less in some stores here.  You can swap lenses with the
> L1, use the R adaptor, R lenses etc.  You only have to look at Gary
> Todoroff's incredible images with the APO 280 4.0 to see what's
> possible with that setup.


I highly recommend the Oly E500. It is small, reliable, and because  
of the ultrasonic dust remover, the pictures are spot free. The two  
zoom lenses in the kit are acceptable for most uses although better  
and much more expensive lenses are available. Even a lens by LEICA.  
If you already have Olympus lenses an adapter flange is available to  
let you use your film lenses on the 4/3 mount. The adapter costs $99  
from Oly USA but ordered direct from China on eBay costs only $20. I  
already had a collection of Olympus film lenses and they all worked  
well on the E500 in aperture priority mode. Focusing on the small  
screen is not as easy as on the large screen of the film cameras.

Larry Z