Canon FD Photos of the Month: April 2017

It's April and suddenly today in Kobe it went from winter to spring. Okay, FD, FL etc. shoots, show us your stuff!

 

My new I got a Canon FL 58/1.2 and found it could only stop down on an FL Camera without serious and possibly damaging modification. So I decided to get an FL Canon. I wanted an FT or, possibly, a Pellix. My search proved surprisingly daunting. I hit every camera shop i knew in Kansai and all I came up were two "junk" FTs and one meterless FP (1964) in "B" condition at Naniwa Camera, Kobe for 6000 yen. It's a comfortable camera and fun with a handheld meter.

Here's the FP with the 58/1.2.

I turned my best shot with the FP and 58/1,2 into a panoramic. Oh yes, the above shot was with a Fuji X-E1 and FD 35/2 chrome nose. This no doubt accounts for the glow.

The workhorse: Canon FDn 80-200/4.0-L

Lifetime experience today...hiked in to an Osprey nest and witnessed a 45 minute aerial mating display sequence, followed by the female landing in the nest, and then the male landing on top to mount her. All right there 30 yards in front of me...got a couple dozen various shots...here's one.

 

The workhorse: Canon FDn 80-200/4.0-L

Lifetime experience today...hiked in to an Osprey nest and witnessed a 45 minute aerial mating display sequence, followed by the female landing in the nest, and then the male landing on top to mount her. All right there 30 yards in front of me...got a couple dozen various shots...here's one.

 

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That is fantastic, Bill !

As some of you know, I'm still plugging along on the transition to automated cameras.

 

Here is Canon's 1985 contribution to early AF lenses -- an FD mount AF lens for the Canon T80:

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• Canon AC 50mm f/1.8 (FD mount)

  
  

OMG - I remember when that auto-focus lens came out. I worked for a camera retail chain at the time and when the rep showed it to me I though, "who in their right mind would want auto-focus?"

Alex, that's a beautiful and natural-looking sunset panoramic. I sure dig film's palette and capture!

Alex, that's a beautiful and natural-looking sunset panoramic. I sure dig film's palette and capture!

Thank you!