OLD AE1 FD LENSES on T3i,or T4i?

OLD AE1 FD LENSES on T3i,or T4i?

I have an old PROGRAM AE1 with about five FD lenses. About 10 years ago, I bought a Canon G6.

This tele/macro lever on the top is now frozen, but I can force it either Telephoto, or Macro, but nothing in the middle, since it won't stop. Canon told me it's not worth fixing. I may either trade it in (20% off) for a refurbished T4i, and keep my FD lenses, or keep the G6, since it can take awesome landscape photos, or portraits, so I may keep that. (besides, what else am I going to use my SanDisk 2.0 Extreme III COMPACT FLASH card for, or my battery pack and charger?) Decisions...Decisions. I also don't think the AE1 will ever become a collectors item anytime soon. What would anyone else do? Maybe keep both cameras and still buy either the T3i, or the T4i.

I was wondering if anyone here has ever used the third party "Mount Adapter for FD to EOS EF Lenses" to use in either the T3i, or the T4i Rebel cameras, and if they yield good results, or not. (I also realize that it's all manual Focus, with the FD's)

I liked the convenience of using my 7.1MP Powershot G series camera, without lugging around all the other lenses, but having HD video and 18MP camera might make me forget all that. I have to decide what I would be happier with.

Thanks!

Sorry I can't say for 100% certainty, but I seem to recall when I was looking heavily into old MF lenses that FD lenses are hard to use on EOS.

pretty sure that the space between the mirror and the back of the lens causes collision at further focusing distances.

hopefully one of the MF gods will come in and clarify further.

some FD lenses have converters that have been made for them...the ed mika converter...but most aren't worth the hassle of using the FD-EF converters, because they add in a cheap glass in order to retain infinity focus, or they don't have glass, and can only be used for macro work

another option could be getting an eos-m...small camera, with a big sensor...and i believe you can use FD's on there without a glass adapter, although i could be mistaken

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