Tamron 500 mirror

Ok, I am about to make the jump to a Canon 50d. I have been shooting film forever with an Olympus OM4-T and one of my favorite lenses I have is the Tamron 500mm mirror lens. This may be a completely noob question but I need to know If I can mount the lens to the 50d and what problems may come up using the Tamron mirror with a 50d. Also where would a good place be to look for a mount?

I really love this lens and use it mainly for motorsports photography. It is really difficult to shoot with but the results are stunning when you get that perfect shot. I cannot afford a 4 or 500mm prime lens and you really need a long lens for motorsports. Thanks guys.. About to enter the world of canon DSR!!

Brauch wrote in post #9900175
Ok, I am about to make the jump to a Canon 50d. I have been shooting film forever with an Olympus OM4-T and one of my favorite lenses I have is the Tamron 500mm mirror lens. This may be a completely noob question but I need to know If I can mount the lens to the 50d and what problems may come up using the Tamron mirror with a 50d. Also where would a good place be to look for a mount?

I really love this lens and use it mainly for motorsports photography. It is really difficult to shoot with but the results are stunning when you get that perfect shot. I cannot afford a 4 or 500mm prime lens and you really need a long lens for motorsports. Thanks guys.. About to enter the world of canon DSR!!

This article might help with the sort of mount you require.

http://www.bobatkins.c​om …phy/tutorials/m​irror.html

Olympus OM-mount lenses are inexpensively adapted to the EOS cameras; I have an Olympus 50/1.8
with an inexpensive EOS adapter on it. In fact, Canon's EOS mount is easily adapted to many other
lens mount systems, making it one of the most versatile camera systems for using older glass
from other makers. HERE is an ebay listing of OM-to-EOS adapters; the AF-confirm variants tend
to be hit-or-miss, so save a few bucks by getting a 'plain' one.

One thing to consider when using manual lenses, is to switch out the camera's focusing screen.
I prefer a split-circle/microprism type, while Canon offers a high- contrast screen which is reputed
to also be a good choice.

An extremely friendly and useful resource for learning more about this can be found HERE.

Brauch wrote in post #9900175
.. I really love this lens and use it mainly for motorsports photography. It is really difficult to shoot with but the results are stunning when you get that perfect shot. I cannot afford a 4 or 500mm prime lens and you really need a long lens for motorsports. Thanks guys.. About to enter the world of canon DSR!!

But realistically how many are ?

I could never get on with using a mirror lens for action shots .. way too many variables to get many keepers.
Back when I was shooting motorsports, I used a fast 70-200 zoom with a 1.4 t/c.
With todays high mp bodies, learn to crop a little .. or a lot

Oh I know it is difficult with a mirror lens but I have managed to get a number of stunning shots at the corkscrew at Laguna Seca. Of course it will be a whole new ball game when I come out of the stone-age to digital. With a 1.6 crop factor for the 50d the Tamron will probably be serious overkill. No way will the mirror lens be my main lens but I would like to give it some use every now and again.

Thanks for the info guys... Looks like I can easily use the Tamron on the 50d.

YOU ABSOLUTELY can adapt that lens, it is one of Tamron's so called "Adaptall" and in this case "Adaptall-2" type lenses.

These lens series were not built to fit ANY sort of camera, but rather only fit---an Adaptall mount--which you would but for whatever camera you were going to use.

Here are some of your options.

There exists a very rare and expensive Tamron (factory) Adaptall mount to EF mount. These are expensive when you find them, BUT there is ALSO a special Adaptall mount that is actually a canon FD type mount designated for the early model EF film camera, and these of course do not fit.

There are import direct Adaptall--to EF adapters available every day on eFray

You can use ANY Adaptall mount which would "act like" an adaptable lens---with a separate adapter--to your Canon.

These are NOT Canon FD, Konica, Minolta MD, and a few others

They ARE Nikon, Olympus OM, Pentax K, Pentax M42, Contax/ Yashica, and a couple of others. With any of the preceding Adaptall mounts, you will need a corresponding import adapter ring to go from whatever you have then, to your Canon EF

I find Oly OM to be particularly handy to use, Nikon not so much, nor M42

Here's a handy chart down this page which gives you an idea of what you can and cannot adapt

http://www.bobatkins.c​om …faq/manual_focu​s_EOS.html

Here's my own in the middle of my two Sig 600mm mirrors, originally Minolta, and modified by me to fit Canon EF on one, and M42 on the other

http://forum.manualfoc​us.org/viewtopic.php?i​d=11381

http://forum.manualfoc​us.org/viewtopic.php?i​d=11415


There's some great info about the Tamron lenses here:

http://www.adaptall-2.com/

yeah you don't need the om-eos adapter...just get an adaptall EF mount off of ebay...they have ones with AF confirm chips now...might help you nail the shot...I've been debating on getting one for my tamron 500mm...
http://cgi.ebay.com …ories?hash=item​53dcc7665b

can you post some of your motorsports shots with this lens?...this is pretty much all i use mine for...observing peregrine falcon nest sites: