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Originally Posted by Paul
but the functionality isn't preserved. You are using a crop of the image circle of these lenses on a DX body. No doubt it actually increases it's relative performance, but it is not 'fully preserved'.
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OK, if you prefer, the the functionality of my legacy lenses is actually enhanced, which is BETTER than preserved. On the other hand, it's NOT enhanced nor preserved in the Olympus system with the adapter, because the auto diaphragm is not preserved, as far as I know and nobody is marketing the adapter to potential customers. And I never said Olympus didn't keep the function - I said that they botched the marketing of the adapter. I was unable to find out how useful it would actually be, or even if I could obtain it, at the time I made my purchase decision.
And I'm NOT arguing a hypothetical. Olympus specifically lost a customer, me, by not marketing to my needs, and they could have EASILY kept me as a customer, by effectively designing and marketing the OM-mount adapter to preserve the functionality of my older Zuiko glass. I consider the older MF glass to be FAR more than a curiosity. As in the Nikon system, these lenses, with their ENHANCED functionality, to use your term, are STILL my bread and butter. And I'm most assuredly not alone in this.
And that's why Olympus is a distant third in the DSLR market, IMHO. Because they failed to bridge to their legacy, which they EASILY could have done, while retaining ALL of the strengths of their 4/3 system. There was ZERO reason not to design and effectively market the OM-mount adapter to do that. They failed to do so when it would have mattered in 2003-2005.