Pen F lenses on Pen FT and the lightmeter

cmo

• Nov 15, 2010

• #1

Today my new Pen FT arrived... a beauty, looks, works and even smells like new. It was modified for modern battery voltage 1.5V. I have a 25, 38 and 100mm lens... and here comes a question: my 25 and 100mm lenses are made for the original F and do not have the funny 0-6 scale like the FT lenses. Is there a way how to use the normal f-scale with the funny Pen metering scale?

 

thuggins

• Feb 16, 2013

• #2

Olympus sold stick on strips to go on the F lenses to match them up to the meter numbers of the FT. It is a simple matter to do, as the FT numbers are one stop apart. You just have to get the zero setting correct. Just compare the FT's metering at zero for a given lens to the actual f-stop from a standard meter, all the other stops should fall in line.

 

StephenSteinke

• Jun 17, 2015

• #3

Zero Saturation Setting Stop The Numbers

 

StephenSteinke

• Jun 17, 2015

• #4

Great Post

 

Murray Kelly

• Jun 18, 2015

• #5

Welcome Stephen. Very quiet nowadays. Do you have a half frame?

Cheers
Murray