Nikon SLR Cameras

Where can i get an adapter and what are the mounts?

Pinky Sparkle
Pinky Sparkle

I'm getting a nikon d3200 and we have an old olympus slr (which you need to put film in it etc.) which we have several lenses for which i believe are still olympus (anyway they fit on the olympus body). Which and is their such a thing as an adapter to mount these lenses onto my nikon body and what are the mounts of the two things? Your help would be much appreciated.

NickP
NickP

1. Doubt if such an "animal" exists for Old Olympus lenses to current Nikon digital cameras.

2. And that in my mind is eaual to buying a Cadillac and putting retread tires on the vehicle!

retiredPhil
retiredPhil

Sorry, couldn't find an Olympus lens to Nikon body adapter. Even if one did exist, you would be totally manual; focus and aperture.

CiaoChao
CiaoChao

Forget it. The Nikon F-mount does not take adapters well because Nikon's system has a the long commonly available flange-focal distance, so any adapter for any other lens system will require either an optical element (degrading the image quality and acting as a teleconverter), or make the lens into a close up lens. Due to this problem few adapters exist that change a lens into F-mount, you may be able to commission a special adapter from specialists, such as SRB Griturn, but it won't overcome any of the aforementioned problems.

The best system for older lenses is the Olympus FourThirds system (e.g. E-3, E-5, E-30, E-3xx, E-4xx, E-5xx, etc), this lens has the shortest flange focal distance of any DSLR, however this is due to the small sensor. The drawback is that you focal lengths essentially double, so a handy 28mm lens becomes a 62mm lens (not really useful).So your full frame lenses are not always practical to use on this system.

Canon is your other good option, with a relatively short flange focal distance of 44.00mm, you can adapt, a lot more lenses including Leica R, M42, Contax/Yashica, Pentax K (only with aperture ring), Nikon F (only with aperture ring), T-mount, Adaptall mount, Olympus OM. The great advantage of Canon's system is the ready availability of full frame cameras, such as the 5D mkI and 1Ds mkI.