Adapter to use Pentax lens on Olympus E-M10
John
Fan of DA limited and old manual lenses
Cheap simple adapters work fine if you have an aperture ring. As John mentioned there a DA version as well to give some aperture control when the lens has no ring. I've not found these that easy to use so very rarely adapt the newer lenses.
Other options that might be of interest are more sophisticated:
I use a focal reducing adapter which widens the FOV roughly to APSC 1.5x crop (instead of MFT 2x) and gains a extra stop of light. Very handy!! (Mine is actually a MFT-EF reducer with an EF-K adapter fitted as a PK version wasn't available when I got it).
Another convenient adapter (also done via EF) has a helicoid built in. It starts at the right length for infinity focus, but can be extended to give an extra cm or so of extension. Giving a macro setup when desired.
The third specialist type I have has a tilting mechanism allowing the plane of focus to be altered (similar to a tilt shift lens but without the shift) Both the versions I have suffer for being cheap so they're not very controllable. I think a Shift adapter may be available now too but when I last checked these where >£200 and v limited in the mounts available...
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Pentax:K5ii, K7, K100D, DA18-55, DA10-17, DA55-300, DA50-200, F100-300, F50, DA35 AL, 4* M50, 2* M135, Helicoid extension, Tak 300 f4 (& 6 film bodies)
3rd Party: Bigmos (Sigma 150-500mm OS HSM),2* 28mm, 100mm macro, 28-200 zoom, 35-80 zoom, 80-200 zoom, 80-210 zoom, 300mm M42, 600 mirror, 1000-4000 scope, 50mm M42, enlarger lenses, Sony & micro 4/3 cameras with various PK mounts, Zenit E...
Far to many tele-converters, adapters, project parts & extension tubes etc.
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15 years
Wakefield,
West Yorkshire
I wasn't sure if this is the right forum for this topic so, Mods, please feel free to move it to the appropriate place.
I recently bought an Olympus E-M10 Mark 2 for my 13 year old son to use + me to use when I am going somewhere and want to travel light (meetings etc).
I have been thinking of using my K fit lenses on the said camera by way of an adapter, aware that it will be manual focus + aperture priority (my usual setting anyway). A Google search has brought up a lot of results with prices ranging from around £20 to £100.
Have you people had any experience of these adapters and would you recommend one?
Many thanks.