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I have a basic Nikon D40 and plan to upgrade - maybe ?

however...........
I have some Canon lens from my film days
is there ANY Canon DIGITAL body at all that will take these lens - with adapters ?
I realise it may/will mean manual focus and no TTL meter

but before I reject these fine glass - any ideas ??

ALL Canon FD lens............
28mm f2.8
50mm f1.8
35-70mm 3.5-4.5 Macro
70-210 f4

just as an aside - they all have a "quality" feel to them that modern lens dont. IMO
 
Hi. Yes you can use you FD lenses on an eos camera with an adapter. Cost around the £20/30 mark!
 
wontolla said:
Hi. Yes you can use you FD lenses on an eos camera with an adapter. Cost around the £20/30 mark!
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really ?? take me further with this please

which eos model
adapter from where ? sorry, too late to do a search - dinner calls
what do I lose or compromise ?

f-stops
manual focus and no TTL i presume

thanks for guidance ................:thumbs:
 
Well as far as I know ANY eos camera! But I stand to be corrected!
Have a read HERE, I found this usefull.
My mate came into DSLRs with a load of FD lenses from his 35mm film days and we both bought an adapter from Amazon. He has a 450d and I have a 350d and they certainly work on both of these!
 
andrewc said:
IIRC its not quite as good as it sounds. I believe its easier to use these on a Nikon with an adapter rather than an EF lens.
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Sorry, but I have never used a Nikon DSLR so I cannot comment on that! it takes a lot of patience and experimentation to get reasonable results, but it IS possible and great fun finding out! You certainly learn alot about your camera in a short time! I am now trying out M42 lenses with my 350d and have yet to get any keepers!! I keep trying though!

Oh, here's another link I had in my favs!
 
Hi,

Forget about using FD lenses on EOS bodies with adapters, unless you want to convert the lenses (only the expensive glass worths that).
To achieve infinity focus you have to use an adapter with glass, which will cause a big decrease of quality in the results. The adapter will also introduce a crop factor. (around 1.2X).
You can use Nikon F, Leica R, Contax/Yashica, M42, Pentax PK, Olympus OM and some other systems on EOS bodies (I already tried all those systems), but forget about the FD lenses.
If you have some excellent FD glass, you may want to convert the bayonet, but not in a £100 lens.
 
andrewc said:
IIRC its not quite as good as it sounds. I believe its easier to use these on a Nikon with an adapter rather than an EF lens.
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That's wrong. :)
Nikon bodies are a nightmare to use alternative glass. Even M42 lenses need an optical adapter and there's no way you can use FD lenses on Nikon bodies.
In fact, even mf lenses from Nikon, work better with Canon EOS bodies than with Nikon bodies.
 
You can use those lenses on Nikon or Canon - both will need an adapter though.
ANy adapter for either format will need to have an optical element - this either increases cost or reduces quality.
 
RichardtheSane said:
You can use those lenses on Nikon or Canon - both will need an adapter though.
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You're right, my mistake. :)
It's also possible to use FD lenses on Nikon bodies, however I believe the lightmeter won't work.
Canon bodies will keep metering with all kind of lenses.
 
I bought an adapter over ebay so that I could use an FD macro lens that I used with my old A1. For Macro work you can unscrew the crap adapter lens which means you lose infinity focus but that's fine for macro work and it means you don't have the IQ loss that the rubbish adapter glass would give.

It's probably not worth it for other lenses since there's no AF and the adapter element will reduce the quality of the images.
 
thanks to you all - I'll keep the FD lens and have a go adapting them at some time

give me something to play with in my dotage............:)
 
mjolnir said:
I bought an adapter over ebay so that I could use an FD macro lens that I used with my old A1. For Macro work you can unscrew the crap adapter lens which means you lose infinity focus but that's fine for macro work and it means you don't have the IQ loss that the rubbish adapter glass would give.

It's probably not worth it for other lenses since there's no AF and the adapter element will reduce the quality of the images.
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Exactly, for macro work they are just fine, since you can use a regular adapter, without an optical element.
 
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