Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom, FD to EF? An adapter - yes - but only for longer focal lengths, and it worked like a magnifier/extender, too. If you can even find one today, it will cost you an arm and a leg - it's cheaper to buy about ten A1 bodies and hope to find one without the shutter squeal :-) The ones available today from other manufacturers (with a single lens element) are really nothing to write home about, you have to stop down to at least f4 to get half-ways decent results and you get the multiplication factor from the adapter AND the crop factor from the DSLR on top. Cheers Douglas PS: I found one in mint condition at a flea market in Berlin last week, with a 50/1.4 SSC, a 70-210/4 zoom and a 28/2.8, a winder and an original Canon M42 to FD adapter, fully boxed, with all papers and a leather case for 150 euros - complete with a new battery for about 10 euros that the guy put in to prove it was working - I was so surprised at the price that I didn't even think of saying "I'll do you a favour and take it off your hands for 120!" ;-) On 16.10.2010 18:05, Tom Schofield wrote: > Were Canon FD owners as mad at Canon as R users are at Leica? Canon at > least had a new camera system, and an adapter. And did not keep promising > a nonexistent solution. And there was no issue about battery > availability. ;-) > > > > >