Which Rebel body for my Canon FD lenses?

<p>I'm currently using my Panasonic G-1 with adapter for Canon FD lenses. I'd like to pick up an inexpensive Rebel body to further take advantage of my lenses. I'm perplexed since I'm not into EOS as to which one I need. I'd like to pick up a camera body with live view. Mega Pixels and video is not important. What body do you recommend?<br>

Mark</p>

<p>I believe most of the FD-EOS adapters cause you to lose infinity focusing, making the lenses not particularly useful.<br>

The answer might be "None".</p>

<p>For live-view, it appears that all the current rebels (xs,xsi,t1i,t2i) listed on canon's site have live view.</p>

<p>What Adam said. Forget about adapting FD stuff to EOS.</p>

<p>Mark,<br>

See answers to a previous question about a day ago. This is a common topic and the answer is its possible, but not without major issues and it becomes more of "is it worth it" than "is it possible". A quick search will bring up many of the options.<br>

The problem is the registration distance - that between the film/sensor plane and the mounting flange. For an adapter without extra optics to work the lens has to have a greater registration distance than the camera body, but FD lens have a 42mm registration and all EOS bodies a 44mm.<br>

See also the link <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/eosfaq/manual_focus_EOS.html" target="_blank">http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/eosfaq/manual_focus_EOS.htm</a>l for more information here.<br>

-Bill</p>

<p>Many FD users (myself included) have agonized over the issue of adapting FD lenses to EOS bodies. Save yourself the agony, Mark.</p>

<p>What I do is use my FD lenses on my FD bodies. And when I want autofocus, I use my EF lenses on my EOS bodies. Simple.</p>

<p>You have a third option; namely, to continue to use your FD lenses on your G-1.</p>

<p>Mark and the others are right. Except for macro work with an adapter without optics (no infinity focus), it is really just not practical to try to use FD lenses on EOS bodies.<br>

Either keep on as you are, or get a FD film camera body (<a href="../canon-fd-camera-forum/00XFXF">AE-1 Programs</a> are cheap, <a href="../canon-fd-camera-forum/00WkhY">T90</a>s are fantastic even when compared to the latest Nikons or Canons).</p>

 

<p>Your G-1 is really the thing to use with FD lenses....</p>

<p>Thanks everyone, I'll rely on your wisdom and keep using the G-1 and my F1N body.</p>

<p>It is a shame and I believe a calculated decision on the part of Canon to make the use of FD lenses virtually impossible on an EOS body. That is a shame because, you can use other manufacturers' manual focus lenses on EOS bodies with adapters. Photographers often use long focal length or macro lenses from other manufacturers on their EOS cameras.</p>

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<p>It may have been a calculated decision, but I think it would have been very difficult to make a camera slim enough to permit an adapter that could receive FD lenses.... the manual-focus Canon bodies are extraordinarily slim. Only 2 other 35mm SLR mounts have ever been made with a shorter mount/film distance, the Miranda (0.5mm shorter) and the Konica (1.5mm shorter). Miranda had intentionally made their cameras thinner than any existing SLR to permit use of Exakta and M42 lenses on their bodies with adapters.</p>

<p>As it is, the EOS mount is shallower than any other 35mm AF SLR mount ... one can hardly accuse them of increasing the depth on purpose in that light. Canon's DSLRs are more versatile than any others of the same format size in the lenses that they can accept, which include M42, Pentax K, Nikon, Olympus, Leica and Contax/Yashica that I'm aware of off the top of my head. The Canon decision that made FD & EOS incompatible was made in 1959 when the Canonflex mount was introduced with such a short lens flange distance.</p>