Old Canon FD Lens

You would probably be best with modern lenses. There are FD-EOS adaptors available but I'm not sure if you retain AF and it could be more expensive too.
 
Take a mooch around this site,

http://forum.mflenses.com/

loads of info about old FD lenses on there.

I had a dabble and bought the Lens Doctor adapter, it is very good indeed, the glass in this thing is the best out there. I have a Tokina Vivitar 75-205 FD fit that is the sharpest lens i have ever used, cost me 17 quid with a 2x converter and postage!

You can find the right stuff, but you need to do your homework.

The M/43 compatabilty with these old lenses has seen mental prices asked and paid for some of them.

Have a look, buy a cheapo and have a play, learn and then take it from there.
There are some really good vids on utube, its worth a punt but don't spend a lot untill you know what you are doing.

If you want some crap FD lenses I have quite a few:)
 
Bawbee said:
You would probably be best with modern lenses. There are FD-EOS adaptors available but I'm not sure if you retain AF and it could be more expensive too.
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With the exception of those made for the T80 (and the massive precursor that looked like a laser guided missile launcher), FD lenses are manual focus.

Like anything on eBay, so long as there aren't a lot of other people who really want one that week, FD lenses can be a bargain. There's also plenty of ***** third party lenses that'll give you all manner of flare and glare effects far better than any software.
 
Steve T said:
Take a mooch around this site,

http://forum.mflenses.com/

loads of info about old FD lenses on there.

I had a dabble and bought the Lens Doctor adapter, it is very good indeed, the glass in this thing is the best out there. I have a Tokina Vivitar 75-205 FD fit that is the sharpest lens i have ever used, cost me 17 quid with a 2x converter and postage!

You can find the right stuff, but you need to do your homework.

The M/43 compatabilty with these old lenses has seen mental prices asked and paid for some of them.

Have a look, buy a cheapo and have a play, learn and then take it from there.
There are some really good vids on utube, its worth a punt but don't spend a lot untill you know what you are doing.

If you want some crap FD lenses I have quite a few:)
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Is the 35mm f1.8 considered crap?
Thanks.
 
For FD to eos you need an adapter with a lens in it otherwise I don't think they'll go to infinity. A better route could be Olympus Zuiko, they'll fit eos with a cheapo metal adapter off ebay and they'll focus to infinity.

I've tried my Zuiko's on my 5D and they work.

Legacy lenses can be very good. I can't speak for FD but my Rokkor and Zuiko lenses are no slouches. Manual focus on a DSLR isn't fun though and it's not something that I personally would bother with unless for macro or stuff that's big in the frame.
 
As Alan has said you need an adaptor with built in optics in order to use FD lenses on an EOS camera and the cheap ones are terrible.
 
If you want to use MF lenses on EOS, just about everything except Canon is less hassle. M42, Nikon, PK all fit with adaptors and no hassle, the FD lenses need an optical adaptor which IMO makes them a bad option.
 
You can use some FD lenses with the optics removed from the adapter. For example. I have a 100mm macro FD lens which I bought new in 1985 for my T90 and that gives brilliant results on my 7D, but has already been said. To achieve infinity focus is almost impossible, except with the adapter from the Lens Doctor.

I now have quite a few M42 fit lenses, which all reach infinity focus, except just one, a Vivitar 28mm.
 
killwilly said:
You can use some FD lenses with the optics removed from the adapter. For example. I have a 100mm macro FD lens which I bought new in 1985 for my T90 and that gives brilliant results on my 7D, but has already been said. To achieve infinity focus is almost impossible, except with the adapter from the Lens Doctor.

I now have quite a few M42 fit lenses, which all reach infinity focus, except just one, a Vivitar 28mm.
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Is M42 fit micro 4 thirds?
Thanks.
 
GlennBlackPhotos said:
Is M42 fit micro 4 thirds?
Thanks.
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M42 is the original screw fit for Pentax film cameras. The image below is the Vivitar I referred to in my previous post. An M42 to EOS adapter can be purchased off eBay for a few pounds. I would recommend getting a chipped adapter, this notifies the photographer when autofocus has been achieved by an audible beep and the chosen focus point turning red in your view finder. The adapters with a "Dandelion" chip can also be programmed to add the aperture setting to the EXIF data of an image.


IMG_1750.JPG Viv 28mm with Zeiss by killwilly, on Flickr
 
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