How to change Olympus E500 Focus Screen

Replacing the Olympus E500 DSLR's focus screen with one that had a manual focus aid is easy. This clip shows how!

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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Photography
• Equipment
• Olympus
• E500
• DSLR
• Camera
• Manual
• Focus
• Screen
• Install
• Change

[gadgetmiser]

Yes, only MF. The e500's small screen is awful for manual focus, too small. If you have good eyes, you can live with it, but you might not have too many keepers! I'm not 100% clear on whether apertures double along with the focal length. However, it certainly enables a faster shutter speed when aperture is f1.4 indoors. Bokeh is great. There Nno warning using non 4/3 lenses, but it not harm camera in any way. gadgetmiser dot com for more info.

[Icheb82]

Looks like one of the old OM lenses attached by the MF-1 adapter ring. I wonder how it works.

[gadgetmiser]

Hi there - it is a Pentax M42 f1.4 50mm lens ... works really well.

[lancedulak]

Thanks for the demo but this was like watching a monkey try to reassemble a nuclear weapon. You have fingerprints all over the focusing screen and probably a scratched sensor now. And your mounts arent going to last long if you keep grinding the lenses onto the body. Its a precision instrument! Argh. sorry really appreciate the video but seeing an (at one time) $1000 camera treated like that is like seeing the monalisa being handled by kids with fingerpaint.

[buddylee1983]

@gadgetmiser theres no way that thats a pentax lens. zuiko lenses are very distinguishable...and that's a zuiko nifty fifty you got on there..

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[Ronny0a]

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[DukeOfPrunes23]

@gadgetmiser its a OM Zuiko f1.4 50mm... Lens Lier

[mcha6397]

can you use the om split screen for the digital one?

[festfreddy]

I assume you can only use MF?

YES

is it comftable enough with E-500 small and quite dim viewfinder?

GUYS INSTALL THESE SCREENS TO USE MF ON OLD 'LEGACY' LENSES. oTHERWIISE, WHAT'S THE POINT?

And if I attach that lens to E-500 body will I get 100mm f/1.4 or 100mm f/2.8?

SEE MY REPLY ABOVE

Do you get any warning massages from the camera while using non-4/3 lenses?

NO, THE ONLY DIFFERENCES ARE IT MAKES AN af CAMERA mf AND YOU CAN ONLY USE 'm' OR 'A' PRIORITY MODES.

[festfreddy]

On 4./3rds, do apertures double along with focal length? [to get the common standard of 35mm equivalency]

Yes and no. Yes, the DOF (depth of field) doubles for a given f no but you retain the light gathering of the original f no.

i.e f4 on 4/3rds has the light gathering of f4 like any normal F4 lens but had the DOF of F8 (on a 35mm equiv camera)

[matteoprez]

Ok, the video is a bit all over the places but I have just put a slipt focusing screen on my e410 and hey, now I can finally properly focus with my range of Zuiko OM lenses... no more near miss! That's great, thanks for the upload.

[smith06374]

Awesome... just what I needed. Thanks!

Now if I can only find somewhere to sell me the dang part!