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pickle

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Morning!

Ok this is going to sound really daft but here goes............

I have a Canon lens, and people ask me is it FD or EF mount? What does that mean and how can I tell just by looking at it? The only difference from my other lens' is that it has gold plated attachments.

Also, how and where would I find out what the maximum magnification on it? :bonk:

Thanks.
 
Look at the front of the lens (bit furthest away from camera) and tell us what it says around the rim. usually white writing around the edge of the lens
 
I'll take a stab and guess that it's a lens you've got with a digital SLR, and that it's an EF or EF-S lens :)
 
Hi, its for an SLR canon. (not digital)

At the front of the lens its says..HOYA 52mm Skylight (1b)

On the side it has 52 AF Macro 1:2.8 f=50mm
 
hehe you can take that front bit off.. thats been added to protect the lens and isnt part of the actual lens.. best to keep it on to do the job.. but there should be more writing under it. just unscrew it and have a looksy.
 
haha yes I did take that bit off!! thats all the writing apart from a funny shaped E, bit like a sideways M. Good Lord.... why didnt I take up golf or something?!
 
OK then what camera does it fit? this may help us help you, I do believe that the FD lenses have a machanical pin sticking out of the bottom to control the Aperture, also the fact that it is an AF lens suggests that it is an EF mount as the FD was only Manual focus.
 
If it says AF on it which stands for Auto Focus it won't be an FD lens which I'm sure were all manual lenses.
 
pickle said:
haha yes I did take that bit off!! thats all the writing apart from a funny shaped E, bit like a sideways M. Good Lord.... why didnt I take up golf or something?!
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Golf is harder than it looks apparently :D
 
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