Adaptor to attach old Canon lenses to 10D?

[IkonFoto]

My mother has a Canon F1 and several nice lenses for it, whereas I have a 10D and no money for new lenses. Does anyone know if there is any sort of adaptor that will allow me to use her lenses on my camera?

I lived in a city when I bought my lenses, then promptly moved to the country where I realized that macro and telephoto would rock my pants. I hike every day and see great birds, snakes, insects and mammals but I just can't get close enough with a max of 105mm. I'd sit and wait, but no animal is going to approach me with my rambunctious puppy next to me, and I don't have the heart to leave him at home when I head for the hills.

Thanks,
Heather

[Jon]

Canon did make an adapter allowing FD lenses (in full manual mode) to be mounted to EOS bodies, but it would only meet your macro needs, since the combination would no longer be able to focus to infinity. There was also a (very rare) FD-EOS teleconverter, for some of the longer FD lenses (similar restriction to the EF teleconverters - it had a protruding front element so was physically incompatible with most lenses).There are some third-party adapters out there, but they're reported to really degrade the image, and at $90 up, you might just as well get a regular EF teleconverter, or an inexpensive prime lens.

[Andy_T]

There's a user called ron chappel on the forum that does even weirder things ... look for his posts.

Best regards,
Andy

[Zeke]

rambunctious puppy

I'm not 100% sure what that means - but I have a sneaking suspicion that my puppy could draw the same adjective. :shock:

[ron chappel]

There's a user called ron chappel on the forum that does even weirder things ... look for his posts.

Best regards,
Andy

ROTFL :lol: :lol: :lol:
um,thanks i think....

Basically there is no easy or inexpensive way of using those lenses

The only cheap easy way is the glass element type adapters available on ebay but they will ruin the image quality for sure.The macro adapers are abit pointless and the genuine long-lens-only canon adapters cost more than your children :shock:
Unless you want to do some serious surgery on a lens like i have,then just sell those lenses on ebay for good $ (they sell really well) and buy something else.Hell,even nikkor lenses are easier to adapt to Canon EOS!
Not that i'm suggesting another some other brand of adapted lens per se.There are many good cheapish EOS fit zooms around these days

[psk4363]

Hi Heather,

I know that you're in Canada but try this UK firm that specialise in strange appliances - they do one for £49 new.

http://www.vintagecameras.co.uk/index.htm

Hope this helps,
Barry

[Finger Appliance]

FD lenses has the mount two mm closer to the film/sensor plane than EF lenses. So with an adaptor without optical elemens, the distance between the lens and the film/sensor plane will be 2mm plus the thickness of the adapter (say 3mm) bigger than it should be.

The options are the following:
I don't mind, I am going to consider it as a macro lens, or I will always focus close, or I will close the diaphragm... so I can manage with a FD female to EF male adapter without optical elemens.
I don't mind, I am going to work with a very (VERY) long tele. The superlong lenses has a focus adjustment wich allows to compensate the thermal contractions and expansions. It allows to turn the focusing ring after the infinity, and maybe (:?:MAYBE) this may help to compensate the 3mm. NOTE: I DON'T KNOW IF THIS COMPENSATION IS ENOUGH to correct the 3mm distance, don't blame me if you don't reach the infinity focus trying this.
I have a very beautiful screwdriver.:shock:I'm going to unscrew the FD mount:!:. After this I will cut :!:the diaphragm actuators and glue them with an instant glue:!:. With this I will be able to put the lens more than 2mm closer to the camera:?:. After this I will screw:!: a Pentax to EOS adapter with focus confirmation I have bougth in Internet and finish it with a epoxy glue:!:. Of course this is VERY DANGEROUS for the lens, and almost always irreversible. Sometimes it works, but BE CAREFUL. Another problem is that you have to do this surgery for each one of the lenses you want to adapt/kill. (Do you feel the lens trembling?)
I'm going to buy an adapter with teleconverter elements.