My daughter is taking film photography and wants a fisheye lense. Does anyone know where I can get an inexpensive one to fit the 30 year old OM-1n camera?

Thanks,
Carl

Try KEH.com. They have lots of used lenses. Currently they list a couple of Vivitar wide angle lenses for OM series cameras. My limited experience with equipment bought from KEH has been that they are a bit generous in their equipment grading. If the piece is rated as UG(ly) or B(ar)G(ai)N, expect it to be pretty rough. The bargain grade is probably still student grade, though. The Ugly grade probably should be considered a parts donar.

OM-1 is a great camera.Still use mine.

Thanks guys, I'm still looking. The OM-1 is my wife's old camera. It is a great camera. She used that thing forever!

My daughter is taking film photography and wants a fisheye lense. Does anyone know where I can get an inexpensive one to fit the 30 year old OM-1n camera?

Thanks,
Carl

True "fisheye" for the Olympus OM-1 camera may be a very tough find. Is your daughter trying to produce the actual fisheye effect or would a 24mm/28mm wideangle be sufficient.
Fisheye thumbnail effects attached.

Here is a CL listing for a 28mm Zuiko.
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/pho/476836091.html

Update. KEH has a 16mm fisheye but it ain't cheap in my book. $889

http://www.keh.com/OnLineStore/ProductList.aspx?Mode=&item=0&ActivateTOC2=&ID=26&BC=OM&BCC=1&CC=6&CCC=2&BCL=&GBC=&GCC=

Update. KEH has a 16mm fisheye but it ain't cheap in my book. $889

http://www.keh.com/OnLineStore/ProductList.aspx?Mode=&item=0&ActivateTOC2=&ID=26&BC=OM&BCC=1&CC=6&CCC=2&BCL=&GBC=&GCC=

Yeah...I saw those. A wee bit to much, like one figure to much!

But thanks Vato for looking!

Have you checked Pawn shops.Sometimes they have OM equipment.Good luck.

Since I'm figuring this is just another "phase" in my daughter's photo adventures, I don't want to spend to much time and effort scouring the country side for one.

I've already looked in all the usual on-line places.

Thanks again guys!
Carl

This may help....
not exactly what you asked for but give it a look:

http://www.lensbabies.com/

This may help....
not exactly what you asked for but give it a look:

http://www.lensbabies.com/

Cool stuff. But I learned a el cheapo method back in school that works just as good.

Vaseline on the outter perimeter of lense filter.

:D

Several years ago there was a "how to" article in one of the photo magazines (Peterson's Photographic maybe) about taking a body cap and modifying it to attaching a wide angle door peep hole viewer which then gave the "fisheye" effect. Cheap and very low tech but produced interesting results.

You won't find an Olympus Zuiko OM mount fish eye lens for cheap.The Russians make a relatively cheap one ( less than $300) but I can't verify if they make it for an OM camera. Now if you daughter was shooting digital, any wide angle lens would do. You could just Photoshop the amount of perspective distortion you'd like to create the fish eye appearance.

Mike