Kipon Baveyes 0.7x Optical Focal Reducer Lens Adapter For Olympus OM Mount Lens to Micro Four Thirds Camera

2019-08-02T08:04:14

Pretty good for the price, only disappointment is that you cannot change the aperture on digital lenses due to the lack of a passthrough.

Zachariah S.

2019-03-05T08:45:52

Wish i would have known the version 2 was about to start shipping from Kipon like literwlly a week after ai got this.Other than that, great...Contax Zeiss on my GH5 and BMMSC4K! Good times.

James R.

2018-12-11T02:23:21

I got this and the Metabones to test with my OM lenses. Two of my OM lenses wouldn't fit the Metabones, the Olympus 50mm 1.8 and the Tokina 35-105mm 3.5-4.5 so I was only able to compare the two speedboosters on a Tokina 80-200mm 2.8 and a Tokina 28-70mm 2.8-4.3. The Kipon was just a hair behind the Metabones hardly enough to justify spending $449 for the Metabones. Like another reviewer wrote if you have some OM lenses at $ the Kipon is definitely worth getting. Some photos taken with the Kipon and the Tokina 35-105 on a Olympus M1 MK II. The Tokina acts like a 49-147mm f/2.5-3.2 with this configuration.

CHRIS A.

2018-03-27T14:50:04

Seemingly well made. Tight fit on both ends.

Rudy M.

2017-08-06T23:46:29

Perfect, fits my GH4, slides in well and easy to release. Gives a wider view and picture is sharp.

Choppenson

2017-03-08T09:43:56

I have taken a fair number of pictures with the adapter with a number of different OM lenses. The first thing I will say is I eyeballed whether I could use this adapter with the 50 mm F1.4 or the 50 mm F1.8 and concluded I should not give it a try. The flange on the back of those lenses seems to extend too far into the amount. I was afraid the flange would scratch the glass on the mount. I do not have that problem with the 50 mm F3.5 macro, the 85 mm F2.0, the 100 mm F2.8, 135 mm F2.8, the 180 mm F2, the 200 mm F4 and the 300 mm F4.5. (Yes, I have a bit of a gear acquisition syndrome problem.) The second thing I will say is that the mount seems quite well built and arrives in a very nice box. although it seems like there are a couple of spots of dust inside the adapter. the most important thing though is how it performs. It certainly does reduce the image size so that each lens is closer to the field of view it originally had on a film camera. I am not 100% sure about the image quality, however. I can't say it is demonstrably worse but I can't say it is demonstrably better. The best I can say is it seems to be about the same as the image quality of the same lens on the same camera without the adapter. that being said, most of my pictures have been playing around indoors oftentimes using a flash. When the weather gets a little nicer and I start taking more pictures outside, I hope to update this review. Bottom line, I have not compared this against the more expensive meta-bones adapter. Or any of the cheaper alternatives. For $, it was worth trying something new. But if you are trying to decide between buying a lens that is specifically designed for your camera and spending $ on this adapter, I would just buy the lens. If you already have a bunch of OM lenses that you like, have $ lying around that you don't really need, and want to have a little more fun with photography, go for it.

Dustin H.