How to Attach Your MFT Olympus Camera to a Telescope

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TheNarrowBand made this cool video and writes:

Attaching your MFT camera to a telescope could not be easier today. There are a plethora of adapters and some of them do some very unique things. A few interesting ones permit you to adjust tilt of the camera and some even reduce the f-ratio of your scope so you can collect light even faster.

ATTENTION!
There are two different standards for M42. One has a 0.75mm thread pitch. The other is 1mm thread pitch. You will only find the 1mm thread pitch in European markets. While the M42x0.75mm dominates the American Canadian, Chines and Japanese markets. Both seam to have the same back focus or lens flange distance of 45.46mm.

Here is a link for the adapter that I used. https://www.ebay.com/itm/284169576224…

And the thread adapter can be found here. Just select the 10mm option.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/163817764560…

I would recommend purchasing the adapter for M42 first. See what it is as far as thread pitch then order your 42-48 adapter should your scope need it.

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Olympus, Panasonic, Sigma, Tamron, Laowa Black Friday deals are now live!

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You can find all Black Friday deals on those special pages at BHphoto, Adorama and Amazon.

You save up to $300 on Panasonic Lumix gear at BHphoto, Adorama and Amazon.
You save up to $300 on Olympus gear at BHphoto, Adorama and Amazon.

Tamron:
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Sigma:
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Adobe:
There is a big new Black Friday deal at Adobe US (Click here). But a similar deal also runs at Adobe Germany, Adobe UK, and other European countries.

Luminar:
Skylum launched a new Black Friday deal on the current Luminar and future NEO software (Click here)

 

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Amazon Europe Black Friday deals are now live

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You can now get early Black Friday deals on those pages at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES, Amazon NL.

Germany deals:
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Olympus 8-25mm f/4 PRO tested by Lenstip: “a really impressive achievement. Hats off!”

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Olympus 8-25mm PRO at BHphoto, Adorama, Fotokoch DE, Calumet DE, Park UK, Wex UK.

Lenstip reviewed the 8-25mm PRO lens and concluded:

The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 8-25 mm f/4 PRO didn’t have any slip-ups and is an instrument which I can personally recommend without any objections. Its price, reaching $1100, is perhaps not that low but lenses with interesting, unique parameters never come cheap. If I, by force, wanted to find any flaw of this one I would mention the fact that I would be happier if the performance of the 8-25 mm model was on par with the performance of its 12-45 mm brother. Of course my expectations are one thing; I am aware that designing and producing an 8-25 mm model is more difficult than the production of the M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-45 mm f/4.0 PRO. Still in the case of the tested lens you get not only a very good sharpness in the frame centre but also practically no slip-ups on edges. At every focal length, up from the maximum relative aperture, you can enjoy good quality images across the frame, a really impressive achievement. Hats off!

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