Canon FD Photos of the Month: December 2018

Well, happy coming holidays. Please share your Canon FD, etc. work with us.

 

 

I shot the below with an FDn 20-35/3.5 Asph. on a Fuji X-E2 + Metabones Speed Booster.

 

Night shoot. Leica M240, ISO 3200, Canon FD 35/2.0 (non-thorium). I think taken wide-open.

 

http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/466704-1/mor42.jpg

Really a nice shot, Jim!

Thanks. It helps when you have excellent models, like Morgan, to work with.

 

I really don’t like using my FD lenses on the Leica. Just too much of a hassle using the accessory electronic finder and using “focus-peaking” to focus. To tell you the truth, I take along a few FD lenses just so I can take pics from this “Picture of the Month” thing. On all of my paid jobs, I’d much rather use rangefinder-coupled lens on my Leica. Just easier to use.

Canon AE1P, 35-105mm, Kodak Ektar100

Gotta love Ektar.

Taking a liberty here but I was out shooting yesterday .....

FD 85mm/f1.8 + FD to EOS adapter

My friend Michelle, showing off her new tattoo. Canon F-1 (old), FD100/2.8. Ektar 100.

 

http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/466976-1/exp49.jpg

Old Church Ruins, Taos Pueblo, NM (around 1980?). Canon TLb with Canon 35mm f/2 (the chrome nose, concave front element with the thorium glass version). This older version of the Canon 35mm f/2, with the radioactive "rare earth" element(s), turned yellow after a while, giving color negative/transparency films a strange yellowish cast, but making it excellent for B&W work. This version of the Canon 35mm f/2 is/was probably the sharpest lens in this FL I've ever used.

 

Indiana

Canon AE-1 Program

Canon FD 28mm f/2.8

Kodak Portra 400 at EI800

Really, really wonderful shots this month! Many thanks to your devotion to Canon FD Photo of the Month!

 

Before I disappear for the holidays I'd like to share a shot of two rehabilitated Canon FD cameras, an F1 and one of my numerous EFs. I found the F1 disembered in "Junk" at Naniwa Camera in Kobe. First I found the body and then the back. In Osaka I got screens and the wild pentaprism you see. Then I put in a battery, mounted an FD lens on it and put in some film and shot. Perfect. And my EF. This one is the most pristine ofmy lot of EFs. The electronics went south. I took it to Motomachi Camera in Kobe and the master sent it off to the techs. I was expecting the worst news--a 40 + year old camera was hopless. But no! They fixed it. For only 6000 yen. It works perfecrly.

 

Oh yes, the F-1 has a 55/1.2 non-aspherical lens and the EF has a plan 50/1.4 lens with Canon hood, BS-55.

Thanks. It helps when you have excellent models, like Morgan, to work with.

 

I really don’t like using my FD lenses on the Leica. Just too much of a hassle using the accessory electronic finder and using “focus-peaking” to focus. To tell you the truth, I take along a few FD lenses just so I can take pics from this “Picture of the Month” thing. On all of my paid jobs, I’d much rather use rangefinder-coupled lens on my Leica. Just easier to use.

Glad you like Picture of the Month so much. It's inspiring!

Really, really wonderful shots this month! Many thanks to your devotion to Canon FD Photo of the Month!

 

Before I disappear for the holidays I'd like to share a shot of two rehabilitated Canon FD cameras, an F1 and one of my numerous EFs. I found the F1 disembered in "Junk" at Naniwa Camera in Kobe. First I found the body and then the back. In Osaka I got screens and the wild pentaprism you see. Then I put in a battery, mounted an FD lens on it and put in some film and shot. Perfect.

 

What battery did you use?

Here's an image of the high lonesome taken in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado last week. Snow and clouds sure make the job easier but I'm kicking myself for using a #8 yellow filter instead of a #15. The contrast between sky and wispy clouds would have been much better. I used my trusty A1 on 100TMAX.