Thanks, guys, I knew something was missing. You know, the idea came to me when I was browsing the eekbay and I saw these 110 lenses...
Well, no cake for me this time ;-). Cheers! Boris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > 110 Instamatic film format is 13x17mm, very close to the Olympus 4/3 > System 13x17.3 mm sensor size. That's roughly half the size in linear > dimensions, about 1/4 the area of 24x36mm. > > The 4/3 lens mount has a flange to focus plane register of 38.5mm > depth and diameter of ~47 mm. I seem to recall the Pentax Instamatic > 110 SLR camera having a focus plane register around 22mm and mount > diameter around 30mm. So while it might be possible to mount the > lenses on a 4/3 camera, they would never focus to infinity. > > These lenses also don't have any aperture control and were designed > for compactness, not telecentricity, so their performance on a > digital sensor is most likely not going to be all that great. > > Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
