Olympus OM 35mm film system close-up and macro equipment
The Olympus OM system of SLR cameras that used 35 mm film was introduced in 1972 and remained in production until 2003. It included a range of lenses, lighting, stands and accessories for close-up and macrophotography that has never been equalled by any other manufacturer.
This website aims to illustrate and document the close-up and macro equipment, and includes original photographs, descriptions of the equipment, reproductions of the instruction leaflets and manuals, and extracts from the Sales Information File.
There are also pages on going digital and on M System equipment, and indexes of product names, numbers and codes.
Olympus supplied dealers with the loose-leaf Sales Information File, which contained details and photographs of almost everything in the Olympus OM system:
- Olympus OM System Sales Information File (PDF, 30-ring, 254 MB)
PDFs of extracts from the Sales Information File are displayed in the pages for some of the equipment. In Microsoft Edge, you may need to change a setting so that PDF files in web pages are displayed instead of showing a link to download them.
Olympus OM macrophoto group
- Olympus OM System Manual for Macrophoto Group (PDF, June 1987)
- Olympus OM System Macrophoto Group brochure (PDF, July 1980, OM-2, QA 310)
- Olympus OM System Macrophoto Group brochure (PDF, October 1980, OM-2N, T32, T10)
- Olympus OM Full Action Macro System brochure (PDF, March 1980, OM-2N, T32, T10)
- Olympus OM System Photomacrography Group – Sales Information File (PDF, 3-ring)
- Olympus OM System Close-up – Group Sales Information File (PDF, 3-ring)
Extension tubes and bellows
Copying and macro stands
- Handy Copy Stand
- Copy Stand
- Table Clamp
- Macrophoto Stand VST-1
- Focusing Rail
- Focusing Stage
- Manual Photomacrographic System PMT-35
Lighting
- Trans-Illuminator LSD
- Trans-Illuminator Base X-DE
- Lieberkühn Reflectors
- Mirror Housings
- Epi-Illuminator PM-LSD 2
- Lighting Set for Copy Stand
- Simple Trans-Illuminator Base VL-DIA-A
Close-up lenses
Olympus OM lens group
Macro lenses
Bellows macro lenses (manual)
Bellows macro lenses (automatic)
Olympus OM flashphoto group
Macro flash
Olympus OM finder group
Focusing screens
- Focusing Screen 1-4
- Focusing Screen 1-4N
- Focusing Screen 1-8
- Focusing Screen 1-10
- Focusing Screen 1-11
- Focusing Screen 1-12
- Focusing Screen 2-4
Viewfinder accessories
Olympus OM photomicro group
- Olympus OM System Manual for Photomicrography Group (PDF, August 1978)
- Olympus OM System Photomicrography Group – Sales Information File (PDF, 3-ring)
- Olympus Photomicrographic Systems (April 1987)
Camera adapters
- Photomicro Adapter H
- Photomicro Adapter H2
- Photomicro Adapter L
- Attaching a digital SLR camera to an Olympus BH-2 microscope
Eyepiece adapters
Photographic eyepieces
Microscopes
Cameras
Stand
Light traps
Indexes
Past, present and future
The Olympus OM close-up and macro system was still being sold when I started this website, and it was intended to help the thousands of users to understand their equipment and make the best use of it.
Olympus discontinued the entire system in 2002, but the components continued to be used with film SLRs, and many of them are now used with digital SLRs and mirrorless cameras.
Now the website is being used by former enthusiasts who want to reminisce, as well as by people who want to understand the system so they can provide good descriptions on eBay. It is also being used by the families of former enthusiasts who are trying to work out what they have inherited so they can decide what to do with it.
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