Canon FD/FL Lens to Canon EOS EF Body Mount Adapter with Infinity Focus, made in Japan

by Zykkor

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001D8X72G
• Item model number: Zykkor
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #24 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Lens Accessories > Adapters & Converters
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 25, 2008

Product Description

Product Features

Description

This adapter allow to use CANON FD mount lenses and macro accessories on Canon EOS cameras. The lens distance scale can be used as well as the focusing to infinity .The adapter has correction lens inside.

Customer Reviews

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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to mis-use., October 4, 2009

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M. Letts (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon FD/FL Lens to Canon EOS EF Body Mount Adapter with Infinity Focus, made in Japan (Electronics)

FD (Manual Focus) Lens to Canon EOS (Auto Focus) Body Mount Adapter from 47th St. Camera

I ordered both adapters from Amazon.Com and recieved the CZFDEOSA from Adorama and a product marked Kipon FD-EOS from 47th ST Camera. The Kipon product is excellent. Unfortunately it can easily be mis-used for three reasons. 1) It is high precision and fits the EOS body very tight. It must be turned until it "clicks", which takes more than the expected force. 2) The adapter lens mount allows the adapter lens to be easily removed, and might be positioned out of range of focus. There is no lens stop, which is good since I can adjust to match the exact point of infinity on the lens. The position seems to be the same for all my FD lenses. 3) The product would benefit from some instructions even though they are obvious to many users. I made a number of disappointing shots until I got everything set right. I currently leave the adapter on my 50D body and I only use FD lenses.

I find I must check that the FD lens aperature ring is not set on A (automatic). We will be setting the aperature manually. The EOS camera is set to AE so only the shutter speed changes with metering. We manually adjust the aperature and ISO settings to get the depth of field and shutter speed we want.

My most common error is that the lens aperature is not stopping down because the adapter is not in the "Lock" position. All is well if I start mounting the lens with the adapter set to "Open", set the lens to manual wide open, mount the lens on the camera and then set the adapter to "Lock" position. I can check the aperature ring function by stopping down and looking into the view finder (not the LCD) to see the difference. No difference means the adapter is "open" and must be moved to "Lock". If the FD lens is still in automatic then the manual aperature ring might not move until I take the lens back off the adapter.

My opinion is that the glass in the adapter does not reduce the sharpness of the FD lenses I have. I got some great shots of the craters on the full moon with my FD 500mm which was previously very difficult to use on the Canon A1. I now set the ISO to 3200 on my 50D and get 1/1000th shutter speed at f8. No detectable shake. Same technique works using the Closeup Macro. I can see the pores on my skin. Creative photography is more than point and shoot for me. Automatic focus and image stabilization are luxuries I can trade off for more FD lenses I didn't used to consider.

Miles Letts

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Adequate adapter, May 25, 2009

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James Bond "jamesbond1999" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Canon FD/FL Lens to Canon EOS EF Body Mount Adapter with Infinity Focus, made in Japan (Electronics)

The brand I received was "Kipon". The adapter comes without instructions, but I found it easy to figure out (It just took about 30 seconds). One red dot was to line up with the eos camera mount, and the other red dot was to line up with the FD lens mount. The words "lock and open" are written on the adapter. You turn it counterclockwise (open) to mount the lens, after which you can leave it as is, or you can turn it clockwise (lock) to get the aperture blades to stop down. I'm not a camera expert but I did not find it that difficult to use.

As might be expected, the corrective lens is not high quality, but then again it doesn't claim to be. Quality of pictures is hit or miss. Some of them do come out soft (in some cases 'misty', or with a bright aura), but other times I can't tell the difference from those taken with an EF lens. I've taken a lot of good pictures with this adapter.

In the end, it's good for playing around with your old FD lenses, but probably not a replacement for EF-dedicated lenses.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Canon FD lens to EOS EF Body Mount, March 1, 2010

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Mike Green - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon FD/FL Lens to Canon EOS EF Body Mount Adapter with Infinity Focus, made in Japan (Electronics)

I bought this adapter to take advantage of the great FD lens buys on Ebay. It works. However, I find it much more user demanding than EF and EF-S lens. It's a nice toy and good gear to go with your EOS camera if you have FD lenses or are thinking about getting any. Bottom line, it works.