11-04-2010, 02:54 PM
[quote name='allanmb' timestamp='1288862510' post='3959']
You will need to get one of two adapters:
The official Canon adapter is renowned for being very good but very rare and thus quite expensive (it has optical elements so lands in the latter category above).
Allan
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Actually the Canon adapter is not all that good either, but better than the cheap stuff you can buy of eBay. I thas indeed an optical element, and essentially is a teleconverter with a small magnification factor. If you can find one it probably sells for around the $1000 mark. It is therefore likely a lot cheaper to get an FL or FD lens professionally converted to EOS-mount, which generally is fairly easy to do with the longer lenses. They still will be all manual lenses, however.
Kind regards, Wim
You will need to get one of two adapters:
- one which has no optics but you lose infinity focus
- or the other that has optics but acts as a small extender which will slow the lens down, change the effective focal length and degrade image quality somewhat.
The official Canon adapter is renowned for being very good but very rare and thus quite expensive (it has optical elements so lands in the latter category above).
Allan
[/quote]
Actually the Canon adapter is not all that good either, but better than the cheap stuff you can buy of eBay. I thas indeed an optical element, and essentially is a teleconverter with a small magnification factor. If you can find one it probably sells for around the $1000 mark. It is therefore likely a lot cheaper to get an FL or FD lens professionally converted to EOS-mount, which generally is fairly easy to do with the longer lenses. They still will be all manual lenses, however.
Kind regards, Wim
Gear: Canon EOS R with 3 primes and 2 zooms, 4 EF-R adapters, Canon EOS 5 (analog), 9 Canon EF primes, a lone Canon EF zoom, 2 extenders, 2 converters, tubes; Olympus OM-D 1 Mk II & Pen F with 12 primes, 6 zooms, and 3 Metabones EF-MFT adapters ....
