Will any film cameras work with my micro four third lenses?

soulslinga said:

Hello
I have a collection of micro four third lenses (nokton voigtlander, panasonic, rokinon). I shoot with a Panasonic GH3. I'm all digital at this point. I shoot video for a living and stills as a hobby usually.
I'd love to shoot with a film camera just for fun. But outside of when I was a kid, I don't have a lot of experience with film cameras.
Are there any film cameras that will accept micro four third lenses?
Perhaps with an adapter of some kind?
Looking for help as to what film camera might work with all these lenses, if any.
thanks in advance.

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Maybe an Olympus Pen half-frame?

E. von Hoegh said:

Maybe an Olympus Pen half-frame?

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Nope, the Pen-F register is 28.95 mm. The Pen viewfinder cameras -- was there one with a rangefinder? I don't recall any, but my memory's not what it used to be. -- have fixed lenses in leaf shutter. I didn't look hard, but have the strong impression that none of the viewfinders is thin enough for a lens for micro 4/3 mounted in front of its shutter to focus to infinity. Also, the micro 4/3 sensor's imaging area is 17 x 13 mm, considerably smaller than half frame/single frame 35 mm's 18 x 24, so coverage may be a problem.

miha said:

They don't need it anymore.

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So that they are not Leica.

Chan, the Ur-Leica and Leica I didn't have rangefinders.

Sigh. Another regular bit by the Leica myth.

What's the register distance on the Pentax A110? Something like that might take M43 lenses... with an expensive custom adapter.

Basically, no, due to the coverage issues mentioned. You would need an adapter with optics that magnifies the image, the simplest case being a teleconverter. However I don't know of any teleconverters with the right mount(s) for that purpose.

If you want to shoot some film on the cheap, buy into a "dead end" (where the lenses are not easily adapted to digital cameras, usually due to short flange distances, and therefore are relatively very cheap) system, e.g. Minolta MD or Canon FD. You can often buy adapters (including fancy metabones ones which shrink the image to give you more speed and shallower DOF) that will allow you to use your film lenses on m4/3... but obviously the lenses that are most-readily adapted to digital are going to be the ones with the highest prices in the used market, what with there being many more digital shooters.

PS welcome to APUG. Not everyone here is a luddite, speculating incompetent or thread-derailer, even if it looks like it.