another lens question

[qpwott]

This may be a stupid question, but I can't help running it by you guys because I know you will give me the right answer--

When picking the Rebel up from the storefront the salesman said that I could use my XL2 lens on the Rebel. Yet another nearby salesman disagreed and said that I cannot.

Does anyone know the right answer? I'd try it myself but I won't be around me XL2 for another few weeks as I am traveling.

As always, your help is much appreciated, thanks all

-qp

[Andy_T]

I think it's the other way round. You can use the EF lens on your XL2 with an adapter. But I'm guessing here.

Best regards,
Andy

[Jon]

Concur. There's an adapter for the XL2 that allows it to take EF lenses. The sensor on the XL2 is so small relative to the EF and EF-S sensors that an XL2 lens wouldn't be able to cover one of those larger sensors and you'd just get a circular picture (AKA world's worst vignetting). Not to mention the XL2's sensor-mount distance is so short that the XL2 lens would have to be buried inside the mirror box of an EOS in order to allow it to focus at infinity.