Konica AR lenses on Micro Four Thirds

What the adapter has to do

Hexanon AR lenses carry a green AE mark on the aperture ring, or EE on older lenses, which lets a Konica body set the aperture itself. An adapter can't, so turn the ring to a real f-number. Lenses made before the Autoreflex T lack the lever that signals the widest aperture to the camera's meter. An adapter doesn't use that lever, so both kinds work.

Set up your Micro Four Thirds camera

1. 01On OM System and Olympus bodies, give the stabilizer the focal length. Press INFO while setting Image Stabilizer, then enter the number printed on the lens.
2. 02To save lenses you use often, add them under Lens Info Settings (up to 10). The saved focal length also feeds the stabilizer and goes into the Exif data.
3. 03MF Assist only reacts to a focus ring the camera can read, which an adapted lens doesn't have, so assign Peaking to a button instead.

What each lens becomes

Micro Four Thirds has no full-frame bodies. On a smaller sensor the frame is cropped, so each lens frames like a longer one. The f-number still sets exposure, while the depth of field looks like the larger number shown.

The Konica AR lenses we cover

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  Konica · Konica AR

  Hexanon AR 40mm f/1.8

  1978–1987

  $120–$190 typical ask

  53 on eBay

• 50mm f/1.7

  Konica · Konica AR

  Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7

  From 1973

  $45–$80 typical ask

  81 on eBay

• 50mm f/1.4

  Konica · Konica AR

  Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.4

  From 1973

  $75–$150 typical ask

  38 on eBay

• 28mm f/3.5

  Konica · Konica AR

  Hexanon AR 28mm f/3.5

  1965 to the late 1980s, in several versions

  $65–$120 typical ask

  60 on eBay