Alex_Es Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Hello FD and Related shooters. March and a dreadfully redesigned website is upon up. Show us your work if you can. I will subit a shot with an FL 58/1.2 on a Leica M 240. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted March 1, 2017 Author Share Posted March 1, 2017 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Canon FD 35-70mm AF -- very early autofocus lens for FD mount: THE watertower, of fame on other Forums 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member69643 Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Conspirators by the Pond, somewhere in Iowa. Had exposure issues with one of my AE-1 Program bodies this past weekend. Was getting goofy aperture values for 1/1000sec on Ilford XP2 (ASA 400) film. Also got a double exposure - not sure how THAT can even happen on an AE-1 Program, but it did. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_bielecki1 Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Alex, was the pic with the FL 58mm taken wide-open? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill C1664885404 Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Canon FDn 35-105/3.5 After piecing together its string of cars in a Norfolk / Southern switching yard, #5824 heads south out of the yard [/img] 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 Alex, was the pic with the FL 58mm taken wide-open? Yes, it was necessary. Also impossible to stop down without dangerously fiddling with the lens's mechanics. I'll get an FT for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill C1664885404 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Disappointed to see that this new website design apparently has the same old severe time limitations for a member to edit / delete his / her own posts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted March 4, 2017 Author Share Posted March 4, 2017 Disappointed to see that this new website design apparently has the same old severe time limitations for a member to edit / delete his / her own posts... Quite right Bill. It is really the same old stuff that is hard to work with and unpleasant to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_ratliff2 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 (edited) I have a Canon FL 55mm, f-1.2 lens that has a small ring with "A" (automatic) or "M" (manual) for using the lens independently in stop-down mode. When set to the "M" setting, the lens stops down independent of the camera. This would help with a digital camera incapable of metering an FL lens. Apparently Canon dropped this when they made the FD 58mm, f-1.2 lens. So do you have an FD or FL lens? John Edited March 5, 2017 by john_ratliff|2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_bielecki1 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Canon never made a FD 58mm lens, only an FL version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_ratliff2 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Yes, I realized that after I looked it up, that Canon did not make a FD 58mm lens. But my FL 55mm f-1.2 does have that stop-down feature. I am going to upload a photo from a bicycle ride I took a few weeks back. I took along my Canon T-90, with my FD 70-210mm F-4 lens on it. It's not a top-of-the-line lens, but it's the one I've got. While on the bicyle trail, I found what at first I thought was a very large dog, only to look closer and see it was a very small pony, a Shetland pony that had gotten out of the home's yard and was loose on the open area beneath the powerlines where the bicycle trail also went through. It was a grassy park. The owner, a woman had "lost" two ponies, and had taken the one by the bridle into the yard, and was calling the other. It started running, and I got this shot of it on the move. Shutter speed, I think, was 125th second, and the lens was wide open at F-4. The film was Kodak 100TMAX. John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_bielecki1 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 John, Canon did eliminate the “A-M” switch on the FD lenses. They can be put in manual mode by pushing the large lever on the back of the lens counter-clockwise until it locks. Mount the lens on the camera and it will be in manual-mode only. Alex used his FL 58mm on a digital Leica. You need an adapter to do this and most have a “manual” mode that allows you to control the lens aperture. At least mine does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill C1664885404 Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Canon FDn 28-85 / 4.0...a handy lens for sure. 20mph winds at the Norfolk / Southern RR Yard today had our Flag snapping & popping but the old 1980's manual Canon FDn 28-85/4.0 lens even got the torn threads at the end of the flag. Can't get an image to display...every time I try to use this new site it seems like something else has changed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck909 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Canon NF1, FD 28mm f2.0, orange filter, T Max 100 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck909 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Same day, same lens, etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck909 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 I wish I knew what this is - a deer stand??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck909 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 One more - same specs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted March 12, 2017 Author Share Posted March 12, 2017 Great black and white, Bill C. Keep your work coming everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill C1664885404 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Canon FDn 17mm/4.0 - Cloud Patterns Over A Cove - Infrared Monochrome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted March 14, 2017 Author Share Posted March 14, 2017 Dear Bill C. I just got home and got your distress signal. I am logged in automatically through my computer. I press Log in and it shows my info automatically. I press log in and that is it. It does not work with my iPad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member69643 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Dilapidated building in Walker, Iowa. Canon New F1, Ilford Delta 100 film. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill C1664885404 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Dear Bill C. I just got home and got your distress signal. I am logged in automatically through my computer. I press Log in and it shows my info automatically. I press log in and that is it. It does not work with my iPad. LOL...should have been more clear...I stay logged in OK via Firefox on my laptop...but not on my iPhone. Also another problem...which I sent a PM about to a Staff member this morning: Apparently the new site software has allowed another user to have the same ID as mine. When I sent you that PM last night I also copied myself. Next thing I know I started getting emails back from another member who set up using the same "Bill C" ID. Didn't think website software allowed that to happen...will see what turns up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 LOL...should have been more clear...I stay logged in OK via Firefox on my laptop...but not on my iPhone. Also another problem...which I sent a PM about to a Staff member this morning: Apparently the new site software has allowed another user to have the same ID as mine. When I sent you that PM last night I also copied myself. Next thing I know I started getting emails back from another member who set up using the same "Bill C" ID. Didn't think website software allowed that to happen...will see what turns up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 That is dreadful. Hope it is all fixed now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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