Canon AE-1 Lens with Digital rebel?

[weezintrumpeteer]

Hey all,
I have an older canon AE-1 with a fair ammount of lenses...I am also thinking about getting a digital rebel...if the AE-1 lenses worked with the rebel...that would be perfect. Do they?
Thanks a bunch!
Patrick

[Bodog]

Sorry, the drebel takes the EF series. Your AE-1 takes the older FD lenses. I understand there are adapters available, but the consensus seems to be that
the image quality is greatly degraded. You would also lose metering and autofocus. You would probly be better off to start with the kit lens and sell your older lenses on eBay to finance newer equipment.

[timmyquest]

I was recently in the same shoes you are in...trust me, suck it up and switch to EOS...you wont regret it.

[smasraum]

Yep, I have my father's old AE-1 Program, and my old EOS 630, and switched to a 350D. The AE-1 stuff is different which is too bad because my dad had some nice lenses. My 630 lenses work with the 350D, but they were really, really cheap because I was a poor college kid when I got the 630. I just made the move to the 350D, make the move. You'll love it.

[Curtis N]

if the AE-1 lenses worked with the rebel...that would be perfect. Do they?Another problem is that the viewfinder on the DRebel doesn't have a split image for manual focusing, and it's not particularly bright. This would make focusing with those lenses more difficult.

[mikell]

I also am about to jump into Canon's Rebel XT, and have older Canons which I treasured, including a Pellix, an EF and an FT. I am giving them up but really wish I could still use one lens I truly loved, a Soligor 135mm f1.8. I have never found so beautiful a lens for shooting live performances(although I'm sure there are some).
Is there an adapter to allow me to use it. I am not worried about auto focus but would, of course, wish to use the camera's internal metering.

[embdude]

I am giving them up but really wish I could still use one lens I truly loved, a Soligor 135mm f1.8. I have never found so beautiful a lens for shooting live performances

You can of course physically modify the FD Lenses to fit the EF mount. Not dificult surgery for a skilled machinest. Of course this would make the lenses useless on the FD bodies (unless you reverse the surgery;))

There is a long and proud history of photographers making older lenses work on newre cameras. I understand that the Japanese excell at this. As you say sometimes you get a lens that is truely special, and you have to bring it with you into a new camera system.

I recall some landscape photographers swear by the lens from the kodak pocket folder of 1912 vintage, and have adapted it onto all manner of cameras...