M-SYSTEM accessories

M-SYSTEM accessories, something that you may come across when looking for Olympus OM items.

Compared to the M-SYSTEM lenses, these M version accessories are sometimes even rarer.

On Mark Dapoz's M-1 information page, you can see photos of some of the M version accessories.

They include bellows, macro stands, filters and many others.

For boxed bellows and stands, those are super hard to find. So far, I have only seen one M version bellows and never seen an M version stand.

However, I managed to locate some rare items. The followings are not documented even on Mark's site.

49mm and 55mm M-SYSTEM version close-up lens (filters) in original boxes.

It's almost like NEW except the 49mm had a bit of fungus, an easy wipe got it fixed.

The original cases, papers and manuals are also included.

The above piece of blue paper perhaps explained the name change.

I believe it shows that Olympus made the change by the Japanese year 48, meaning around 1973 Apr.

Perhaps, the change was carried out but there were still M boxes left so they included this blue paper to explain what was going on.

I can't comprehend Japanese but based on some of the wordings, I believe it says M and OM are pretty much similar and should demonstrate equal performances.

I will try to google translate it maybe and see what it says exactly.

Interesting finds, and there are some upcoming ones.

Cheers,

Wilfred