Originally posted by kirbic:
An FD lens will not natively mount to an EOS camera. FD is Canon's previous mount design. There are ways to mount them:
- Use a mechanical adapter (but you lose infinity focus)
- Use an adapter with an optical element (but optical quality is degraded)
In either case, the lens would be completely manual; no AF, no aperture control. Neither is worth the effort, really. |
Amen to that. I have some FD lenses from my A-1 days. I asked the vendor if the lenses could attain infinity focus, since there was no optics in the adapter. Why sure they can. I gather their interpretation is that, the lens barrel will still move to the infinity setting, and something somewhere will be in focus. Unfortunately on my 50mm 1.4, it is about 6 feet away, at that point. On the other hand, it did turn it into a nice bright macro lens, so it wasn't a complete waste. More like only a 98 - 99 percent waste. I'm not interested enough to go back and buy a different adapter with optics. The lenses I have now, 28-135 and 70-300 suit my needs. If anything, I'd put money away for some L glass. |
