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Pro Optic Canon FD Lens to EOS Body Adapter with Correction Glass - Focuses to Infinity

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Note the Photo above is NOT this product. This product is a adapter which contains a LENS and is superior to the one shown.

The Canon FD/FL series of lenses for the bayonet mount cameras of the past were the standard of high quality optics, and the FL SC and SSC lenses were the best lenses on the market. When the lighter weight eos lenses replaced the bayonet system, many users were forced to retire these superior quality manual focus lenses.

This adapter is far superior to the cheaply machined glassless adapters available elsewhere, I own both. Not only does this adapter fit well on both the camera bodies ( I use XS and XSi) and the lenses, the original optical quality is maintained as well as infinity focus.

By being a 1.3X teleconverter you gain additional magnification, but this is of course unnoticeable when composing in the camera.

Metering is uneffected, and the cheaper glassless one causes "communication" errors which sometimes disables the camera operation, THIS one doesn't.

I use this to adapt lenses and my FL/FD Bellows for macro work, the results are excellent.

The connection is tight and robust enough to handle the extra weight.

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I'm using it to join a Canon Rebel Xti and an old Canon zoom lens. This is a great option for those who don't like letting old lenses go to waste. While I agree with the other reviewers that the combination can be a little cumbersome, it beats having to buy a new lens. Great product!

I purchased this item even after reading some of the negative reviews. Here's my take.

Old lenses are a lot of fun and you can get some great lenses for a reasonable price. My macro lens cost me around $100 and it performs much, much better than that. The adapter is a simple metal ring that fits on your camera body lens mount. I happen to have a Canon EOS 40D, but it shouldn't matter as long as the camera has an EF mount. You line up the red dots like you would on a lens and twist it to lock it into place. After that, you mount the lens (I have a Canon FD 50mm f/3.5 macro lens). It snapped right into place. In this configuration, I like to set the camera on AE mode so that I can manually adjust the aperture on the lens and allow the camera to meter and pick the shutter speed.

The only problem (which isn't really a problem) is that when the adapter snaps into place, it isn't held very tightly in place. It is locked in, so it can't fall off but it will wiggle back and forth a few centimeters. This is kind of a pain when you are focusing since it moves around. Other than that, this adapter has worked beautifully for me. I highly recommend it.

All the old FD lens that were in my drawer have now found a place back in my camera bag! Now the only problem I have is my camera bag is to heavy.

It doesn't conform to FD spec. Very difficult to put on and almost can't get off my FD lens.

After carefully examination, I found the problem. It is missing a small hole in the adptor. I need to drill a small hole to make it work. Which hole? Look at an original FD rear cap, you will know.

Now I can put it on and take it off easily. But...it is not tight enough when use on any FD lens. Making it useless. It doesn't conform to FD spec. Period.

A piece of crap from India.

I got this and tried out the adapter to a few of my old 35mm lenses, it worked, on most, but on two it was REALLY soft-focus, like Vaseline smeared on a lens, that bad.
That is not this thing's fault at all, this thing is made perfect, really nice quality, I've bought similar on 'that online auction place', they were Chinese junk, inferior metals.
With other lenses I have, I got some good quality out of them, I don't know why the differences yet, but it surely has to do with the lenses compatibility to the lens inside of the adapter, which I removed to check out, (it just unscrews) but it loses its focus big time.
I'd definitely recommend this to anyone that wants to utilize their old lenses, or, go with a Nikon lens on a Canon, that sort of thing, you can do some good stuff with this with the proper lens.

I'd buy it again, it's cheap for what it is, it's quality, so you can't ask for anything more.

The unit worked as described without issue. However the unit is difficult to remove from the lens once its on. Not that big of an issue for me, others my find it extremely problematic.

This adapter DOES allow you to attach an FD lens on an EOS body. But it's like putting a door knob on a door that won't open. Made in India, the construction is sloppy. It does fit on the EOS body well, but the FD lens attached will rattle as though it will fall off. Without any built-in correction lens, it will not allow anything close to infinity focus. Unless you want to do sloppy "macro" work, avoid this product. Why would someone go through the trouble to machine a piece of metal to be so useless?

This lens mount adapter allows you to use your old Canon FD lenses on you new Canon EOS camera. It works well with telephoto lenses in the manual mode. Just stop your lens down and let the camera select the shutter speed in the Program mode. Works great with telephotos but doesn't work at all with wide angle lenses. Don't put it on too tight or you might not get it off.

The mount received was as requested and work as expected except for the issue of it not coming off. There maybe a way to do it but I don't know how except to start unscrewing things. But that is unneeded because I don't think that I will need to remove it anyway. Over all it does what it needs to do.