Are you using Canon FD lens on DSLR body?

I'm looking for experience from users that have used Canon FD lens on

DSLR body. I guess it will work with $200 FD-EF lens adapter. How

about quality?

I'm guessing this question has been asked a couple of hundred times in this forum. There many many threads on it in the archives.

If you are buying a third party adapter $200 is a rip off. Adorama has one for $39. It looks to have no glass and you lose infinity focus. Hama makes one with glass that runs around $100. This degrades your image a great deal and the quality of your photographs will not be high.

If you have long telephotos you might try to find an original Canon adapter. It acts as a 1.26 teleconverter but preserves optical quality. It can only physically mate with a select few lenses and the last I saw went for more like $400 to $500.

How about a link to the $200 adapter? Is it made by Canon? It's well known that the optical ones not made by Canon are worthless, but I've never seen one sell for that much.<p>If it is made by Canon, and has optics, the protruding front end prevents it from being mounted to anything but specific high-end FD glass:<br>FD 200mm 1.8 L<br>

FD 200mm 2.8 RF<br>

FD 300mm 2.8 L<br>

FD 300mm 4<br>

FD 300mm 4 L<br>

FD 400mm 2.8 L<br>

FD 400mm 4.5<br>

FD 500mm 4.5 L<br>

FD 600mm 4.5<br>

FD 800mm 5.6 L<br>

FD 50-300mm 4.5 L<br>

FD 85-300mm 4.5<br>

FD 150-600mm 5.6 L<P>Or if it is made by Canon or anybody else, and has no optics, it is basicly a small extension tube and you lose infinity focus. Maybe useful for closeup/macro.

Get Nikkor MF long primes instead, and just use them with the non-optical infinity capable

adapter, unless you have a specialty lens such as the 200 f/1.8L or the 150-600 f/5.6L.

It'll be cheaper.

BAS asks:

"I'm looking for experience from users that have used Canon FD lens on DSLR body. I guess it will work with $200 FD-EF lens adapter. How about quality?"

First of all, $200 is waaaaaaay too much to spend on one of those things, at least the one made by Hama. I got mine for well under $100.

Second, I've been using it on my 10D with my old FDn 300mm/f:4 non-L and it seems to do OK as long as you focus carefully. Here are some sample shots I did with that set up:

http://www.pbase.com/sloopjohne/image/32524798

http://www.pbase.com/sloopjohne/image/32524800

http://www.pbase.com/sloopjohne/image/32524801

The Hama softens the image a bit, so I used the Unsharp Mask in Photoshop to make up for that. Also, the adapter has a glass elemetn which makes it act like an approx. 1.5x teleconverter, so you lose an f-stop.

Other than those caveats, I don't think the Hama FD-EOS is all that bad a device as long as you stick with high-quality teles. I also used it with my old FDn 80-200mm/f:4 L until I sold that lens. It seemed to work fine with that lens as well.