FD lens adapter

[Dave240]

This question has probably been asked a hundred times before, but the search wont allow me to input "fd".

Has anyone used an FD lens adapter? I was thinking of purchasing an FD 50mm macro lens as they are quite cheap, and one of the adapters off fleabay.

I have heard that this can be quite troublesome, "No lens" warnings etc. Is this true?

I know I will have to manually focus the lens and I assume there will be no autoexposure right?

For $25 for the lens and $30 for the adapter is it worth it?

TIA
Dave

EDIT- Just noticed the sticky, PLEASE DELETE

[embdude]

This question has probably been asked a hundred times before, but the search wont allow me to input "fd".

Has anyone used an FD lens adapter? I was thinking of purchasing an FD 50mm macro lens as they are quite cheap, and one of the adapters off fleabay.

I have heard that this can be quite troublesome, "No lens" warnings etc. Is this true?

I know I will have to manually focus the lens and I assume there will be no autoexposure right?

For $25 for the lens and $30 for the adapter is it worth it?

TIA
Dave

EDIT- Just noticed the sticky, PLEASE DELETE

The answer is yes! In your case it is worth it. A no-brainer in fact...

Since the FD lens was designed for a camera body thinner than the EOS bodies, you will lose your ability to focus on distand subjects or to infinity. Basically the lens will work great for macro and rather near subjects, but not so usefull for stuff greater than an armslegnth....

An adapter with a lens in it was once made by canon, to fix this focus problem, but hard to impossible to come by today. Todays new FD adapters are just straight mount converters.

This being said....
Since you are interestd in a macro lens, you should have no worries, assuming you use it for macro type work.

Your other option is to completly remove the rear mount of the FD lens and slap on a EOS EF mount....



The

[Ian Parkin]

http://www.srbfilm.co.uk/adaptors.htm

This company in the uk stock/make an adapter for fd to eos with the relay lens in
£ 41.99

Ian

[Radioham]

Also here for about £26 :)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4687&item=7525348755&rd=1&ssPageName=WD2V

[Andy_T]

I think that it might NOT be worth it.

Take a look at this more in-depth discussion (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=57023)of the issue, and you will find out that you will either only get mediocre image quality with the lens (if it has an adapter with correction lens that allows it to focus to infinity like the one in the eBay auction mentioned) or have an exclusive macro lens.

Get an adapter for M42, T-mount, Nikon, Contax, Leica, Olympus... and a corresponding macro lens, that will also allow you to focus at infinity with good image quality. IMO a better deal than an FD adapter.

With either of these manual focus lenses, there is no 'no lens warning' (just an information that aperture is '00'), and you can use the lens in aperture priority mode, your camera will correctly determine the corresponding shutter speed.

Best regards,
Andy