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Lawrence I think I saw it on the parent forum or maybe I had slipped on to Canon FD without realizing it.

The wife and I plan some extended photography heavy adventures in the coming year. These adventures will be hundreds of miles from an outlet to plug a charger in. Is my best bet for charging camera batteries just to bite the bullet and use a std wall charger and an inverter? Both the rig and the trailer will have large storage batteries.

Being away from shore power of any kind for almost a month at a time I would prefer not to have to pack a dozen batteries.

 

 

Curious why you are not asking this on the Canon FD forum where there a BUNCH of T-90 users?

Canon changed almost everything when they went to EF mount to cause photographers to buy all new stuff. A simple make more money decision. 

 

I have 1 or two of the Battery pack G's been a long time since I even looked at them.

Only manual focus film camera I know of capable of auto exposure cross polarized flash photography.

I believe the door problem is from people pushing the door closed with the little latch extended causing a lot of stress. I have always been very careful opening and closing the battery doors on A series cameras and while I have had a couple with broken doors in purchases off eBay I have never had one break while in my hands. But then I have only used A series cameras since Sept of 1976 LOL.

The best way is to send it to someone that does have the experience and tools to do the job.

I have kept my FD system it would still be the system I shoot with if I were doing much creative or artistic photography. For the last almost dozen years 90% of my photography is project documentation. As I am building my 48 Willys Jeep I have taken hundreds if not thusands of photos to either document or share with others. For this stuff my Phone does a decent job. I a couple years back bought a Olympus OM-D5 digital with in body IS to use my FD lenses on. And once I get back to photography as my main hobby it will be mostly with that. Though I do have a freezer full of film that will get to see the light of day at some point.

I paid no attention what so ever in the transition from FD to EF to me all this was was a way to be able to afford the stuff I couldn't back in the day. I been shooting with Canon FD since I got my first AE-1 in Sept of 76 just a couple months after it was introduced. And will most likely keep using it for a long time yet.

This weirds me out a bit I have a few really desirable FD lenses and I have a Digital body I can use them on. Granted the wide angles are not real useful on a 4/3 format body. But when I see lenses Have going for the kind of money they are, I wonder if I should sell. Lord knows I've taken it in the shorts on my Bodies.  Oh what the heck might as well keep them. The film in my little Freezer in the storage room will most likely take care of a couple years of retirement LOL.

Unfortunately the 600/4.5 is not an L, even though it is white. My research over the years has always pointed to the 500/4.5 L being vastly superior.

 

 

Yea I think I got typing to fast. The 600mm f4.5nFD I had had been beat pretty good had spray paint all over it and after hours and hours of clean up and having my local old school camera repair guy go through it. It produced very uninspiring images so I moved it along.

The 400mm f4.5 is an outstanding lens I have had 3 or 4 of them over the years settling on the 400mm f4.5 nFD I have now I use it with both the 1.4X and 2XA I also use it with my Olympus OMD-10E which is a 4/3 format digital its basically a hand holdable 800mm with the high ISO of the digital and the in body stabilization. I have also had the 500mm f4.5L FD and the 600mm f4.5L nFD and while I thought the 600mm was nothing to be bragging about it could have been my sample. The 500mm f4.5L was outstanding. But with the addition of the 4/3 format body I just didnt need that much glass.

For me the nice thing about the T90 is the meter modes. The spot meter is ideal with long telephotos.

So, did you get one. (I have the FLF 500 f5.6 - a great lens)

 

Yes I have owned a 500mm f4.5L I ended up selling it when I started using my FD lenses on an Olympus 4/3 digital body. My best photo taken with the 500mm and a 2X-A was of 5) of Saturns Moons.

 

For now the 400mm f4.5 nFD I have with a 2X-A is more then enough magnification on the 4/3 body for any bird photography I do.

Interesting I bought my first Canon camera in 1976 one of the early AE-1's this was while in collage after having been into photography in high school for three years (teacher there was a NIKON snob) In college I hung out with the local Pro who was often hired by the college to do things like shoot photos on big Ornithology field trips. And while his Canon bodies were Black I don't remember ever being jealous of his F-1 I was jealous of his 500mm f4.5L lens. I now have owned every Canon body in the FD line but the T-80 and AL-1 and have Black AE-1p, A1, F1N, T-90 that I shoot with. And I have some AE-1 and AE-1p in Chrome. And its still the lenses that get me going.

Steve is correct if I remember right there can be a problem with tearing the film. I have always just bought Bulk AA alkalines when on sale for my winders etc. NOW in a flash the NMIH is very nice.

I owned the nFD version of the 17mm f4.0 and found it to be an outstanding lens for Waterfall and interior photography. No other lens I had and I had a bunch of third party lenses close to the same focal length came close to it.

 

Granted individual samples might vary.

Just to put a spin on it I have used the Canon FD system since 1976 when I bought one of the First AE-1's a 35mm f2.8 100 mmf2.8 and a 600mm f8 Sigma mirror in College. I like both mount styles.

OH I have a different opinion the original FD mount with the rotating ring is AWESOME you place the lens against the body and the ring moves itself just enough to keep the lens from falling off. Granted you still need to turn it to full lock but thats fine. Now on a Nikon or other bayonet lock you needed to find the button to relase the lens while on a FD lens all you needed to do was turn the ring your fingers could be on the ring any where. No I think the Original FD mount was genius. The later nFD mount was done to make the Canon mount more like other companies and to save weight and production costs. As to why they dropped the nFD mount when they went to AF thats simple there just plain wasn't enough acreage for all the electrical connection on the nFD mount. Also they needed to gain some focal distance from the film plane.

LOL easiest way to describe the 17mm f4.0 is it was the best lenses made in the FD mount in that focal length nothing else came even close.

I'll say it again try that with a nFD 50mm f1.2L it will have a RED stripe on it and COST a bunch. The f1.2 Aspherical is now at least a 40 year old lens LOTS of mileage on a 40 year old lens.

SO now that you have gotten answers from a dozen different people your choice is clear right? LOL Both are great cameras both will take great photos if you can take great photos. Buy one and play with it. If you decide you don't like something about it the other one offers buy the second one and either keep as back up the first or if money is tight sell it. Concentrate on the Glass you mount on the front of it. Virtually all the Canon glass is good so buy condition and you will be happy.

We have a little Velbon PH243 that we used all over Europe and lots of hiking trips. Its very light yet for up to a 200mm f2.8 (using the lens tripod mount) its pretty stable. Sure its not my wooden Berlebach but then you need a wheel barrow to drag that thing around with you. They seam to be discontinued but there is one on ebay right now

DOn't over look using something like a FD-15 extension tube with long lenses like this to increase the power of the lens. While you will loose the infinity focus for something like bird photography reducing the close focus distance while increasing the magnification of the lens. When I had my 500mm nFD I would use a 15mm extension tube for my backyard photography.

I have both. Don't have a P though no P lenses.

I feel it important to point out you guys are commenting on a 3 year old thread. Carry on.