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canon fd50mm 3.5 ssc macro lens


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<p>I lucked upon a canon 50 macro ssc lens on ebay a few months ago for just $30 dollars with lens hood. It works great on my F1. It was missing the life size adapter.<br>

Well that was okay, the lens is sharp as a tack and gets pretty close without the adapter.<br>

Well guess what arrived in the mail today? A life size adapter........I won it on ebay two days ago for $10 dollars. Life is good, back in the day this combo was around $300 if I remember correctly?<br>

Keep looking bargains are out there........sometimes.</p>

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<p>Yeah! One of my favorite lenses in the FD lineup. Lucky man. BTW if you find any haze on the lens, the rear element is easy to remove, clean and reassemble; the front element, IMHO is impossible to do anything with.</p>
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<p>IIRC, I paid about $340 CDN retail for a 50/3.5 macro FDn in 1981. Using an inflation calculator, this equates to about $860 in 2011 dollars.</p>

<p>I probably could have saved 10 or 15% if I had bought it from one of the New York discounters, but any way you cut it this was a fairly expensive lens 30 years ago. It is crazy that you can buy a piece of glass this good for fifty bucks now.</p>

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<p>Jeff use the links to download the manual for the lens (second Link) and every info you might need for macro (First Link).<br /> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070528024441/http://www.canonfd.com/macrobrochures/closeupengl82.pdf">http://web.archive.org/web/20070528024441/http://www.canonfd.com/macrobrochures/closeupengl82.pdf</a><br>

<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070528024441/http://www.canonfd.com/50macrolens/canonmacrolensfd50mm.pdf">http://web.archive.org/web/20070528024441/http://www.canonfd.com/50macrolens/canonmacrolensfd50mm.pdf</a><br /> Thanks to Christian Rollinger efforts we all can enjoy our "gadgets".</p>

<p>Got my 50mm Macro Breechlock with the Extension 25U (Life size Adapter) from US for $6.14 ...... and I had to pay $33 for postage costs to Cyprus. LOL<br /> I absolutely LOVE this lens. I bought a MacroLite ML-3 with use on my T90 and the 50mm.<br /> Lethal combination ........</p>

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