Adapting FD Mount Lenses to Mirrorless Cameras
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Mirrorless cameras open the door to easily adapting virtually every manual focus SLR lens mount out there. For most mounts, the process is straight forward: just mount the lens on the adapter. However, Canon's FD mount has one quick that you have to pay attention to - the aperture actuation lever.
In this video we'll look at how to adapt an FD mount lens, and why the aperture actuation lever can become a problem.
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Mystery Solved lol! Thanks for this, concise and to the point, made solving my problem of the aperture not working on my adapted lens.
I have a fotodiox pro FD->RF and it works great. Just make sure you adjust your settings in the camera to “shutter release without lens” that way you don’t get errors from the camera not recognizing there’s a lens on there.
I just recently got a Soligor 135mm f/2.8 FD lens and the FD to EF-M adapter. Under $50 for both and in really good condition. My M6 mark II works good with it.
Any photos?
@@RichieColemanSr yes
I show my little EOS-M using the 135mm
Clutch! I was going mad trying to figure out how to get this to work. Thanks!
Thanks for pointing me to the FD > EOSR adapter. I do have a 50mm FD lens that could be used on my R5 with that adapter. More importantly, I have a Canon FD bellows that I use with microscope lenses for extreme macro by attaching an FD > EOS adapter for my 5DMark IV. I’m guessing the FD > EOSR adapter would work fine with the R5 since f/stops don’t really come into play with a microscope objective anyway. It’s just the ability to connect it that would matter.
Yea, any FD to EOS R adapter should work for your bellows and microscope lenses. I used this one (amzn.to/3PWAcnz [affiliate link]) in the video. Yea, it's cheap, but there's no glass or electronics in these adapters, so there's not a lot to go wrong either. The only real issue you might run into with extreme macro work is if the mounts are parallel, but I would expect you could compensate for that with your bellows adapter or by shimming the mount if you needed to.
Thanks for your video!
Do I need an adapter between FD and MC? Because the MC lens fits, but doesn't "click"
For an MC lens (I assume you're talking about a Minolta MC lens), you'll need an MC to RF adapter, not an FD to RF adapter. The MC mount is different from the FD mount.
How concerned do you need to be with lens fungus getting in the body, using these old lenses?
That would really depend on the lens more than anything else.
Personally, if I can see any fungus in the the lens, I won't buy or use it. If it looks just as clean as a new lens, then I don't really worry about it.
Of course, if it's a special lens for a very specific project/look, you can have them cleaned and you should be fine.
How do you meter thru the lens?
Half press the shutter release and look at the meter bar on the bottom of the screen (largely the same way you would with a normal lens). Since these are manual lenses though, you have to change the aperture on the lens, and the camera will always read 00, but it will meter the scene correctly if you use it.