OLYMPUS 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye ED Zuiko Digital Lens on Canon 1Ds MkII?

Natasa Stojsic

Is anybody using OLYMPUS 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye ED Zuiko Digital Lens on Canon 1Ds MkII body?

Is Olympus to EF adapter available?

claudermilk

Boy, you are coming up with some interesting questions!

For adapters, thge best places I know of to look are Fotodiox or Cameraquest. If that Oly lens is the 4/3 mount, AFAIK it's one of the few that cannot be adapted to EOS (shorter lens-film plane distance).

System

The ZD 8 mm doesn't cover the whole image circle of a 1Ds II, so it would be pretty useless - you'd get maybe half the sensor covered. I think the widest you can go on a Leica format sensor is the Sigma 12-24, although that's not a fisheye.

keepright

Natasa Stojsic wrote:

Is anybody using OLYMPUS 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye ED Zuiko Digital Lens on Canon 1Ds MkII body?

Is Olympus to EF adapter available?

I've never heard of such a thing, and it probable doesn't exist for the reason Juze mentioned: the 4/3 format lenses are designed for a 18 x 13.5 mm sensor.

If you really like the 8mm Digital Zuiko, it might be worth getting an E-410 to put underneath it. With a fish you wouldn't need the IS of the larger E-510. Alternatively, a used E-1 would feel similar to the build quality that you're used to, and have about the same resolution as the Zuiko would on your camera.

claudermilk

I knew I'd seen a table of lens mount specs--wikipedia. Here are the two pertinent lines:

Mount name Camera type Mount type Flange focal distance
Four Thirds digital still Bayonet 38.67 mm
Canon EF 35 mm still Bayonet 44 mm


So, that tells me that it cannot be done--the Olympus lens needs to be within the Canon body for proper focus.