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Canon FD to EF Lens adapter?

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 09:10:23 No.3561495 View View Reply Original Report

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I have a lot of lenses for my canon a1, im making a roadtrip to my natal city and wanna shoot with 2 of them on my rebel t3i

Do you guys have experience with it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 09:14:01 No.3561496 Report

Quoted By: >>3561723 >>3561735

Adapting FD to EF isn't "possible" because of flange distance limitations
The converter that does exist has a glass element within it giving it a crop factor of 1.1
I'm not sure how easy to find these converters actually are though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 09:15:06 No.3561497 Report

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If you use an adapter without the glass element then you definitely absolutely lose infinity focus and probably a lot of the top end as well.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 13:45:38 No.3561594 Report

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avoid

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 17:44:15 No.3561723 Report

Quoted By: >>3561734

>>3561496
I have a sony a57 also, should i buy the fd to a-mount converter?

is it any better?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 17:53:04 No.3561734 Report

Quoted By: >>3561746

>>3561723
Sony A-mount has a flange distance of 44.5mm
Canon EF mount is 44mm

Canon FD mount is 42mm
To get a conversion that maintains infinity focus and doesn't require active elements you need a shorter flange focal distance
Here's a chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flange_focal_distance

tl;dr
No, your Sony wouldn't help out
What you could however do is sell your rebel and buy a mirrorless camera, since mirrorless cameras have extremely short flange distances you can definitely adapt those lenses.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 17:54:00 No.3561735 Report

Quoted By: >>3561742

>>3561496
they're easily found on Aliexpress. I have one from there, cost me about £10.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 18:06:23 No.3561742 Report

Quoted By: >>3561750 >>3561755

>>3561735
how did it go?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 18:20:45 No.3561746 Report

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>>3561734

What do you think of the sony nex-7 for my purpose?

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 18:29:51 No.3561750 Report

Quoted By: >>3561755

>>3561742
works okay so far, I think this shot was taken with an adapted Canon FD 35mm f2.8 on my EOS film camera. I don't take notes on my gear used so it's sometimes hard to remember what I used to shoot each shot.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 18:40:34 No.3561755 Report

Quoted By: >>3561766

>>3561742
>>3561750
honestly though, while you can adapt FD lenses onto EOS, it's probably better if you use another lens mounted on. There are adapters with AF confirm chips for Olympus OM, Pentax PK, M42, they all work better than FD since FD has the flange distance issue. I don't use my FD adapter often because my Oly OM 50mm f1.4 works better and fits flush to the camera. Identical flange distance on EOS to an OM camera.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 18:47:18 No.3561766 Report

Quoted By: >>3561772

>>3561755
look at this vid, the photos and video are cris af, what do you think? its a special adapter?

https://youtu.be/V0eTL1jPRwM

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 18:52:15 No.3561770 Report

Quoted By: >>3561774

>>3561495

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 18:55:44 No.3561772 Report

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>>3561766
probably another standard EOS-FD adapter with a glass element inside to correct things like mine. Any time you add more glass to a set up you degrade image quality and introduce issues like flaring or chromatic abberations. Honestly, Canon's L39/LTM Leica mount lenses will probably work better mounted to EOS because the adapter has no glass. It's just how it is. The same problem occurs with speedbooster adapters. But it's up to you, do what you want. If you're impressed by that guy's video you probably won't care about a hit to your image quality.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2019 18:57:40 No.3561774 Report

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>>3561770
The one I bought is here
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32801500444.html

As far as I can tell it's the exact same shit as Fotodiox, there's only so many ways to make an adapter with some glass in the middle. Maybe Fotodiox will have marginally better coatings on the glass element but I doubt it.

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