Camera/Lens Question

[japrice]

I have an Olympus E-410 and want to get the Canon Rebel T2i. The thing is that I have 3 lenses and they would all work on the Canon I'm finding it really confusing though. It has something to do with the Olympus cameras being OM, but I can't find a list anywhere that states what camera's are OM and what model OM's. I need to know this before I purchase the camera. If I only need the body that would be great! Thanks, any help is appreciated.

[firebox40dash5]

Olympus OM system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I don't think OM lenses would work with your 4/3rds E-410 without an adapter, so your lenses probably aren't OMs if you're currently using them. They also don't work on Canon without an adapter, and you may find the functionality limited. I don't know how Canon's metering and aperture control takes to old manual lenses. Maybe someone more familiar with Canon can answer that.

Assuming you have 4/3rds lenses, I don't think they can be adapted to any other cameras, except Micro 4/3rds. AFAIK the image circle is too small, and the flange-to-sensor distance is too short to work with other cameras with larger sensors.

[inkista]

OM lenses generally worked on Olympus film SLRs that had "OM" in their name: e.g., OM-1, OM-10, OM-30 etc. OM is the old Olympus manual-focus film mount, which was used from the 80's up until about 2002.

If the lenses work on your E, they won't work on a Canon. The Es are four-thirds mount. Olympus completely ditched their film mount and started from scratch when they went to digital. The only digital camera mount for which you can adapt four-thirds lenses is micro four-thirds.

This is what an old OM lens looks like (the ones on the left and right are the OM 50/1.8 and the OM 50/1.2. The one in the middle is the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II:



The OM lenses are all metal, and relatively solid and heavy.