Zuiko OM Lens and Digital SLR

More of a technical listing today. My early photography was done with the Olympus OM system for which I collected a number of useful lenses. Moving to digital has rendered many of them obsolete but there is one lens that I loved, the Zuiko 55mm, f1.2. It's a beautiful lens and the f1.2 maximun aperture makes it really useful for low light photography.

As a trial, I purchased an adaptor to fit this lens to the Olympus e500. It was a cheap purchase on ebay and I realised that I would not be able to focus at infinity but that was not the reason for the purchase.

A 'traditional' 55mm focal length lens on an Olympus e500 (or an other 4/3rds system) makes it an equivalent 110mm lens, perfect for portrait work and close-ups where focus at infinity is not a requirement.

The manual focusing takes me back to early photography days and takes a bit of getting used to. The exposure needs a bit more thinking through also as open-aperture exposure is not possible on these old lenses. The quality of the images however are just great. Here's a test card, taken hand-held and at f2/ 1/90th sec.
General resolution is fantastic (this was taken in jpeg mode, medium setting and 1/4 compression) and is more than good enough for general photography work.

I'm going to play a little more over the coming weeks to see how a 25year old lens can get on with modern day digital processing.