A silly idea

[Boris Liberman]

Thanks, guys, I knew something was missing.

You know, the idea came to me when I was browsing the eekbay and I saw 
these 110 lenses...

Well, no cake for me this time ;-).

Cheers!

Boris


Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> 110 Instamatic film format is 13x17mm, very close to the Olympus 4/3  
> System 13x17.3 mm sensor size. That's roughly half the size in linear  
> dimensions, about 1/4 the area of 24x36mm.
> 
> The 4/3 lens mount has a flange to focus plane register of 38.5mm  
> depth and diameter of ~47 mm. I seem to recall the Pentax Instamatic  
> 110 SLR camera having a focus plane register around 22mm and mount  
> diameter around 30mm. So while it might be possible to mount the  
> lenses on a 4/3 camera, they would never focus to infinity.
> 
> These lenses also don't have any aperture control and were designed  
> for compactness, not telecentricity, so their performance on a  
> digital sensor is most likely not going to be all that great.
> 
> Godfrey