X700 Lens mount for Olympus Zuiko MF Lens

It would not be worth it. You could probably get an adapter someone, but it would have an optical element in it which would degrade picture quality and increase the focal length of your lenses.

Just use your Olympus glass on your Olympus camera - it really is the best way to go. Or, buy a couple of rokkor lenses - they are cheap, really cheap - a lot of them are very high quality too.

Best of luck.

Rich

Contact SRBFilm for a custom mount, or make your own from two teleconverters from the same maker, say, Vivitar, moving the front of the Olympus-fit-teleconverter to the front of the Minolta-fit-teleconverter body.

SRB-GRITURN LTD, Unit 21D, Icknield Way Farm, Tring Road, Dunstable, Beds LU6 2JX , Tel: 01582 661878 - Fax: 01582 472980

http://srbfilm.co.uk/

https://srbfilm.co.uk/srbsecure/secureform2.htm [to describe custom orders]

Alternatively, the lenses are way more valuable to Olympus owners, and fully non-automatic on a Minolta X-700 IF you could get them to work. Sell them, make a bundle, then buy what lenses you prefer that take full automated advantage of the Minolta MC/MD TTL OTF AEF MPS.

MC/MD = Meter Coupled / Minolta Dual Mode shutter and aperture priority auto exposure capabilities

TTL = Through The Lens metering

OTF - Off The Film metering, a Minolta invention, first released in a SLR by Olympus

AEF = Auto ElectroFlash, Minolta incorporated OTF ONLY for AEF, not for regular exposures, deeming the benefits not worth the cost - apparently a wise decision, marketing wise, as the X-700 became the world's best seller of it's type in it's time.

MPS - Minolta Program System, yet another early implementation of an anti shake scheme, where the auto exposure ramp tilted to avoid slow shutter speeds rather than risk capturing camera shake.

With Minolta's later Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum sophisticated intelligence fuzzy logic cameras, Minolta also incorporated not only lens focal length and subject distance, as electronically reported from the lens and focus system, but also subject movement (high frequency) versus photographer movement / camera shake (low frequency) as reported by comparing sequential auto focus video frame captures, and adjusted the auto exposure program accordingly.

Hey, I love my X-700, but I know the additional benefits where my Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum si (and later) helped me capture what the X-700 was incapable of pitching in on. Not to mention in-built remote flash control, and waay smaller motors for auto wind and DX and so on. Hey, and my X-700 never auto rewound EVER! :-(

Anyway, Chris, combining and not wasting any tech gear you already have is great, but also remember to re- contribute unusable stuff into the flow for others to appreciate, and bring new stuff into your sphere of experience when possible. Photography is fun. Enjoy! Let us know what you do, and share some pictures when you can.