Fit my Canon lenses to a 35mm Olympus?

[Muddy Beast]

Is there any kind of adapter out there to fit a canon lens (the new mount type, cant think of the name) to an Olympus OM10 (I believe one of the first) 35mm camera?

I'm taking a photography class at school and we use 35mm cameras for the first year, and my dad has an Olympus OM10 35mm camera I'll be using with a Vivitar lens, I figure if I can I'll use my glass since its better glass then his.

If it matters, you can see the lenses I have in my Sig.

[deckcadet]

I haven't seen any adapters, but the answer for EF lenses like yours is almost undoubtedly no. The Canon EF lens mount has no manual aperture control- all is done electronically, so stopping down is extremely difficult to manage, in fact practically impossible.
Additionally the EF lens mount has one of the shortest distances to the film plane in SLRs, second only to Canon's older FD mount (which is why FD lenses couldn't be used on EF cameras). So even if you had an adapter, the EF lens might mount, but you'd lose focusing to infinity, and may in fact end up with an almost useless focus range.

Now thanks to the OM system's 46mm distance to film plane from the mount flange, which is very similar to Nikon's 46.5mm, it *Will* work the other way around.... so you could theoretically get the adapter to mount olympus OM lenses on your Rebel XTi, though how much use that is to you is debatable.

Good luck!

[Muddy Beast]

blah well thats a bummer.
thanks for the info though.

I guess I'll just use my dads 24-200mm vivitar lens, much worse apature and quality range compared to my lenses, but w/e works.