Olympus OM Photographic System

The Olympus OM cameras are part of an extensive system of equipment, and available broadly into five groups: Lenses, Motor Drive, Close-ups, Macrophotography and Photomicrography.

Zuiko Lenses

The lenses range from 8 mm and 16 mm fisheyes to a 1000 mm super telephoto, including a family of zoom lenses. They all have automatic diaphragms and all the long focus lenses are of compact telephoto construction. There are seven macro lenses in total, some of which can also be used as normal lenses while others focus via the Auto Bellows or Extension Rings, the famed Shift lens of OM optic has the broadest field of view and the fastest in its class, the 24mm Shift f3.5. Late inclusions were some exciting optic such as 100mm f2.0, 180mm f2.8, 250mm f2.8 and 300mm f2.8 - with longer focal length optics use exotic ED glass with Internal focusing mechanism.

Motor Drive/Power Winder

The motor drive group includes an extremely small motor drive unit with power pack and 250 exposure back, AC power source and a bulk film loader. Also available is the lighter and more economical Power Winder unit which also takes in the 250 Bulk Film back.

Macrophotography

For macrophotography, there is a full seven maco lenses outfit, two ring flash and two macro flash in addition to an extensive Macrophoto Equipment PMT-35, as well as the Auto Bellows with double cable release, three bellows-fitting macro lenses, a focusing rail and stage and a variety of lighting units and other equipment. There are also two types of copy stand and a small subject macrophoto stand, plus close-up lenses and extension tubes.

Credit: Mr. Steve Martin <stevemartin@hetnet.nl> who contributed his time to prepare the scanning process of the Instruction Manual of the Auto Tube 65-116mm.(NEW upload)

Photomicrography

The photomicrography group includes some high-quality microscopes and other laboratory equipment. It also includes many accessories, such as a photomicrographic exposure meter, focusing telescope and magnifier, a special supporting stand, eyepiece adapters, etc.

Flash Photography

There are TTL T-series flash, older Quick AUTO series, new FP Super F280 flash, a compact S-20 and a hammer head T45 which uses a dedicated power pack; the group also covers accessories such as filters, TTL sync cords, connectors, extension heads and two pairs of Ring and Macro flash units.

Olympus Accessories

Additional accessories include Recordata Backs, interchangeable focusing screens, Varimagni Finder, filters, remote-accessories, close-up lenses, extension tubes, Accessory shoes, Macro-adaptors, Power Packs, Chargers, eyecup and Dioptric correction lenses, cases, compartments and many other items.

Variations:- of OM bodies and Lenses

IMPORTANT: If you have a Support Problem for your camera, try make use of the Message Board section and seek others' advice or opinion:

| Message Board | for your favourite Olympus OM-1(n) and OM-2(n) series models
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About this photographic site.

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My old time buddy, Ahmad Ikram, Dr of Rubber Research Institute (RRI), Malaysia who shares the same passion with me and also lending his OM-1n, OM-4 and the Motor Drive 1 to me for preparing some images in this site. Mr Poon of Foto Poon, Ipoh, Mr Richard, Ampang Park, Mr Lim and Miss Jenny of Foto Edar for their generosity for their OM1(n), OM2n camera and some Zuiko lenses. Mr Hans van Veluwen for mistakenly using some content earlier from his OM website; J Sorensen for providing some useful images to rectify some technical "flaws"; Mr Gen Holst for helping during the early stages of development of this OM site; Mr KKLow for some of his earlier images on the OM-1appeared in this website; Miss Wati and Mirza for helping me to convert this Operation Manual into a HTML format. Mr MCLau for rectifying some mistakes made on the earlier preview sites. Site created 'unfortunately' again with a PowerMac. A personal tribute to the creator of the OM system and also a site dedicated to all the fans of Olympuses and Zuiko Optics worldwide. Some of the content and images appeared in this site were scanned from OM official marketing leaflets, brochures and instruction manual(s) for educational purposes. Olympus is a registered tradename of Olympus Optical Inc., Japan.