05-06-2011, 08:33 PM
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Are they lenses that are worthwhile the effort? Some FD lenses were special (like the f1.2 versions), but not all old primes from Canon (and Nikon) are worth any investment...
As said above, you can use them on EF with an adapter which has optics to correct the flange distance difference, but they act as tele converters and their simple optics SUCK, making the whole effort not worth while.
A simple adapter from ebay WITHOUT optics is more interesting, but will lose you infinity focus. How much you lose depends on the focal length: the wider the lens, the bigger the shrinkage of focus distance.
A Sony NEX with FD adapter might be more interesting. But only if the lenses are good enough to warrant the experiment.
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There is a Canon 50mm f1.4, a Vivitar 135mm f2.8 and a Vivitar 200mm f3.5! They used to be good lenses, but I have no idea how good or bad they are with todays standards. The idea would be to buy for example a GF1 with the 17mm AF kit lens and the adaptor ring so that I would have the 50, 135 and 200mm lenses as a "free" set of lenses. What would the conversion rate to 24x36 be on a GF1? Somewhere around 1.7?
Are they lenses that are worthwhile the effort? Some FD lenses were special (like the f1.2 versions), but not all old primes from Canon (and Nikon) are worth any investment...
As said above, you can use them on EF with an adapter which has optics to correct the flange distance difference, but they act as tele converters and their simple optics SUCK, making the whole effort not worth while.
A simple adapter from ebay WITHOUT optics is more interesting, but will lose you infinity focus. How much you lose depends on the focal length: the wider the lens, the bigger the shrinkage of focus distance.
A Sony NEX with FD adapter might be more interesting. But only if the lenses are good enough to warrant the experiment.
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There is a Canon 50mm f1.4, a Vivitar 135mm f2.8 and a Vivitar 200mm f3.5! They used to be good lenses, but I have no idea how good or bad they are with todays standards. The idea would be to buy for example a GF1 with the 17mm AF kit lens and the adaptor ring so that I would have the 50, 135 and 200mm lenses as a "free" set of lenses. What would the conversion rate to 24x36 be on a GF1? Somewhere around 1.7?