A few days ago I purchased this strange new adapter on ebay from a vendor named "muh_select" and expected an awful chinese rip-off adapter because I only paid ca. $65.

In fact, it's pretty good.

So, today, I put a Canon 1.4/50mm ( a nice 1.4 portrait lens for a Pen), 4/24-105, 4/300 plus the 1.4x extender, e.g. a massive 5.6/420mm that dwarfs my Pen FT.

All works fine... well, except the autofocus, stabilizer and, of course, there is no way to stop down an EOS lens without all the electronics that are built into an EOS camera.

Useless? No, in my Pen FT I use 100 ASA films like the Ektar or Tmax 100, f4 or 5.6 and short exposure times, that's okay for me in the winter, and I own a 4x neutral density filter in case I need it.

But, much more important:

The EOS lens mount has a very short flange and allows to adapt many different lenses: Leica R, Leica Visoflex, Nikon F, Pentax Screw, Contax/Yashica, Olympus OM and probably many more (not Leica M, unfortunately).

I have a variety of very good lenses from various manufacturers and some adapters, this will be fun

My mind whirls! So much information and so little mind to absorb.

wonder of Canon

The Pens have a shorter distance from the mounting flange to the film plane than "full frame" SLR's. So in theory any SLR lens can be mounted onto a Pen if you had the proper adapters. The OM/Pen adapters were probably the most common, for obvious reasons. But I believe that in the Pen's heyday adapters were available for various manufacturers' lenses.

Me too, I got one !

For some time, I expected to get an adapter to put my OM lenses on my PenFT.
Finally, I found on Ebay a Chinese business (M.U.K. ?)that offered a PenF(body) to EOS(lenses) adapter plus an EOS(body) to OM(lenses) ring. As I already had an EOS(body) to M42(lenses) adapter, now I may put all my OM lenses and all my M42 lenses on my PenFT. I may also put canon EOS lenses on my PenFT but without the canon body electronics, I could only shoot full open.

On the first picture in the middle, the PenF to EOS adapter, on the left the EOS to OM ring and on the right the EOS to M42 ring.

http://www.apug.org/forum/index.php?groupphotos/photo&photo_id=3404

On the second picture, on the right my only PenF standard lens (38mm/1.8), on the left the standard lens of my OM (50mm/1.8) and in the middle an reputable zoom for the OM.

http://www.apug.org/forum/index.php?groupphotos/photo&photo_id=3405

I don't tell you how many M42 lenses I have (notably a 16mm Zenitar Fish-Eye).

Paul

Me too, I got one !

For some time, I expected to get an adapter to put my OM lenses on my PenFT.
Finally, I found on Ebay a Chinese business (M.U.K. ?)that offered a PenF(body) to EOS(lenses) adapter plus an EOS(body) to OM(lenses) ring. As I already had an EOS(body) to M42(lenses) ring, now I may put all my OM lenses and all my M42 lenses on my PenFT. I may also put canon EOS lenses on my PenFT but without the canon body electronics, I would be able only to shoot full open.

On the first picture in the middle, the PenF to EOS adapter, on the left the EOS to OM ring and on the right the EOS to M42 ring.

http://www.apug.org/forum/index.php?groupphotos/photo&photo_id=3404

On the second picture, on the right my only PenF standard lens (38mm/1.8), on the left the standard lens of my OM (50mm/1.8) and in the middle an reputable zoom for the OM.

http://www.apug.org/forum/index.php?groupphotos/photo&photo_id=3405

I don't tell you how many M42 lenses I have (notably a 16mm Zenitar Fish-Eye).

Paul