#Canon FD mount

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CANON FD 50mm F1.4 S.S.C. (I) FD-Mount Manual Focus Lens in March 1973

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Canon T70 by Steve Green Via Flickr: Canon FD 50mm f1.8 SC lens Fujicolor C200 35mm film

[prey4bokeh]

So this Christmas my girlfriend got me this cool adapter that lets me adapt Canon FD lenses to my Canon EOS R. So basically I can use vintage film lenses on my mirrorless. Honestly I’m in love with vintage glass, I have only a hand full of them, but I never spent more than $50 on any lens and the images that come out are amazing. I had a couple of my photography buddies completely blown away that I’m using vintage lenses. Here are two of my favorites, my 50mm f1.8 and my 135mm f2.5. Both super clean, take amazing photos, the bokeh is butter and you can’t tell if this is a modern lens or a vintage lens. My 50mm is a perfect for not only portraits, but great for street photography. My 135mm is perfect for nature and wildlife photography. Not something I do a lot of, but would definitely love to do more of it, but mainly because I own a 135mm for it. I hope to get a 300mm one day as well. Now there is some cons and pros for using vintage lenses. Pros are, not as expensive as modern lenses, like I said I never spent more than $50 on a lens. There are some great ebay deals out there, there are some very expensive FD lenses, that run in the $1,000’s, but those were for making movies. You’re not buying cheap plastic, all these lenses are well made and made of metal. You don’t have to use Canon name brand lenses, as long as it has the FD mount, there are other brands out there that are nice in price and still have the same image quality. Now for the Cons, all the lenses will have to be manual focus, now that is pretty obvious to a lot of photographers, but this is something a lot of photographers will not like and will miss autofocus. Taking videos, there is no auto stabilization, so you will need a gimbal and you will have to manually focus as recording. It can be done and I’m sure that will not bother others, you can buy an adapter with built in autofocus, but that’s $300 for that. Another thing is shopping for the right lens, now I normally recommend ebay, just make sure you read the description. Since these lenses are old, they can develop dust in the glass and fungus. Also I have read where some actually have mold in them, but message the seller if they’re description is vague on the lens. Another con is these will make your weather sealed or weather proof camera not weather sealed or proof. I definitely learned that the hard way one photoshoot. I got a little moisture on my sensor one day when it was raining, thinking I would he good because I’ve shot before in the rain with my RF lens and was completely fine. Now for the last con, some of these lenses are heavy! My 135mm is super heavy, because they are made a of metal and not the cheap plastic you spend $1,000’s of dollars on. So trying hold focus on hold the lens is a sometimes a struggle. I linked the adapter up top of this post and they sell other adapters for other cameras as well.

[taifunu]

with a twist by Simon Lambert Via Flickr: Seed on a turquoise glass picture frame. Shot with a Meyer Trioplan 100mm mounted on some Canon FD bellows. Have a guess what plant this is from, if you like!

[squirls1025]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Deitz 135mm MC Zoom 1:2.8 Camera Lens Canon FD Mount With Case No. 815359.

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Revival of Vintage Lenses: The Latest Trend, Digital Photography

**Revival of Vintage Lenses: The Latest Trend in Digital Photography**

Welcome back to my digital photography blog! Today, we're diving into one of the most intriguing trends reshaping the photography landscape: the revival of vintage lenses. This trend blends the old with the new, offering photographers unique creative opportunities and distinctive visual styles. Let's explore why vintage lenses are making a comeback and how you can incorporate them into your photography toolkit.

### The Allure of Vintage Lenses

#### Unique Optical Characteristics

One of the primary reasons photographers are drawn to vintage lenses is their unique optical qualities. Unlike modern lenses, which are designed to minimize flaws and produce clinically sharp images, vintage lenses often have imperfections that add character to photos. These can include:

- **Soft Focus:** Many vintage lenses produce a softer image, particularly at wider apertures. This can give portraits a dreamy, ethereal quality.

- **Swirly Bokeh:** Certain vintage lenses, like the Helios 44-2, are famous for their distinctive bokeh patterns, which can add an artistic touch to backgrounds.

- **Chromatic Aberration:** While generally considered a flaw, chromatic aberration (color fringing) can sometimes enhance the aesthetic of an image, giving it a unique look that modern lenses typically avoid.

#### Build Quality and Aesthetic

Vintage lenses are often built with metal bodies and manual focus rings, providing a tactile shooting experience that many photographers find satisfying. The craftsmanship of these lenses is typically robust, and their classic design adds a nostalgic aesthetic to your camera setup.

### Adapting Vintage Lenses to Modern Cameras

#### Lens Mount Adapters

To use vintage lenses on modern digital cameras, you'll need a lens mount adapter. These adapters are readily available for most camera and lens combinations. Here’s how to choose the right adapter:

- **Compatibility:** Ensure the adapter matches both your lens mount and camera mount. Popular mounts include M42, Canon FD, and Nikon F for lenses, and Sony E, Canon EF, and Micro Four Thirds for cameras.

- **Quality:** Invest in a good-quality adapter to ensure a secure fit and to avoid light leaks. Brands like Fotodiox and Metabones are known for their reliable adapters.

Manual Focus and Exposure

Most vintage lenses are manual focus, which can be a learning curve for those used to autofocus. However, this can also be an advantage, as it encourages more deliberate and thoughtful composition. Many modern cameras have focus peaking and magnification features to assist with manual focusing.

Additionally, vintage lenses often lack electronic contacts, meaning you’ll need to adjust exposure settings manually. This includes setting the aperture on the lens and adjusting shutter speed and ISO on your camera.

Creative Benefits of Using Vintage Lenses

Enhanced Storytelling

The unique characteristics of vintage lenses can enhance storytelling by imparting a distinctive mood or atmosphere to your images. For instance, the soft focus and warm colour rendition of a vintage lens can evoke nostalgia or romance, making it perfect for portraiture and lifestyle photography.

Experimentation and Learning

Using vintage lenses can reinvigorate your creative process. The need to manually focus and set exposure slows down the shooting process, encouraging more thoughtful composition and a deeper understanding of photographic principles.

Cost-Effective Quality

Many high-quality vintage lenses are available at a fraction of the cost of modern equivalents. This allows photographers to expand their lens collection and experiment with different focal lengths and styles without breaking the bank.

Popular Vintage Lenses to Explore

- **Helios 44-2 58mm f/2:** Known for its swirly bokeh and sharp central focus, this Soviet-era lens is a favorite among portrait photographers.

- **Canon FD 50mm f/1.4:** This lens offers excellent sharpness and beautiful background blur, making it ideal for portraits and low-light photography.

- **Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2:** Renowned for its build quality and pleasing bokeh, this lens is a great choice for those looking to experiment with shallow depth of field.

Conclusion

The revival of vintage lenses in digital photography is more than just a trend; it's a movement that celebrates the artistry and craftsmanship of past generations. By integrating these classic lenses into your modern workflow, you can achieve unique optical effects, enrich your creative process, and produce images with a distinctive charm that sets your work apart.

So, dig out that old lens from your attic or visit a second-hand camera store, grab an adapter, and start exploring the endless

 creative possibilities that vintage lenses offer. Happy shooting!

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New on Analog.Cafe: "Canon FD 50mm 1:1.4 S.S.C. Lens Review: A Special Look; an Affordable Cult-Classic!" — Canon FD 50mm 𝒇1.4 S.S.C. are the second-generation breech-lock mount “normal” lenses for the popular Canon AE-1 35mm film SLRs and FD-mount cameras. Their glass renders distinct bokeh, has decent flare resistance, comes with plenty of contrast, and is quite sharp when stopped down. The S.S.C.-marked lenses are the relatively rare and typically cost more than the standard “new FD” (sometimes marked as nFD) 50mm 𝒇1.4 lenses. But not all S.S.C. lenses are “chrome nose.” — [ Click the link to read the full post. ]

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I've been lusting after a Leica Q2 for a while even though I don't shoot digitally. I honestly don't know what it is about that camera that makes me want it but I WANT IT.

I absolutely positively can't afford it and honestly I don't even know if I'd like shooting with it anyway, since it has that fixed 28mm prime lens and that's really wide. My main lens recently has been my Canon EF 28–105 mm but I tend to use it more in the 50-75mm range rather than super wide, and I don't like using it for street photography because it's not exactly unobtrusive.

I was looking into buying a 28mm prime but even the Canon f/2.8 starts at about £120 used, and I just don't have that.

BUT

I had a realisation.

A few months ago I picked up a Canon AE-1 Program for an absolute steal. It unfortunately doesn't work - the shutter doesn't fire and it can't wind on, a very common problem that can be fixed with a service. Even more unfortunate is the fact that I can't afford to service it. But it did come with a few lenses that looked pretty nice, and I wanted to try them out. The AE-1 uses the FD mount rather than the EF mount on my 500N, so I picked up a converter.

It turns out that vintage FD lenses are pretty fucking cheap. I'm currently bidding on a Sigma 28mm f/2.8 and it's looking like I'll get it for under £20. It's also not the smallest lens in the world, but it's much less obnoxiously sized than my 28-105mm and having a prime will force me to get comfortable with that focal length. And then one of two things will happen: I'll find I love it, and I can start saving to buy a Leica in like...5 years. Or I'll find that actually I really hate it, and then the desire to get the Q2 will magically dissipate.

I do wish I could find a slightly faster lens, but f/2.8 is still pretty quick (and probably more than fast enough for my purposes). But if anyone knows any good vintage 28mm lenses that can be had cheap (i.e. less than £50ish) and that use a mount for which converters to EF mounts exist (and that's EF, not EF-S), please do let me know!

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[NEAR MINT] Canon T90 BLACK Body 35mm SLR Film Camera For FD Mount From JAPAN

CAMERA DEALS: Seller: vintage_camera_shop.s_japan (100.0% positive feedback) Location: JP Condition: Used Price: 159.99 USD Shipping cost: 50.00 USD Buy It Now https://www.ebay.com/itm/354851370580?hash=item529eca3654%3Ag%3AJZMAAOSwE9pkix-A&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4OIR3DveiTDEMrC%2BH4Ts50iMNZ7GvYlD3gjT9WImlZGjlPvGRIlVM6AOna755wp0iZ%2BbrrF%2FUyhfsZ55h2oNcM9kmZfY89J0RCI8BsBEDH5IaTaHAccnaVGwYRdzhm%2F64nu1X9Pn3imB99Io6d1BcHdPuSgwKp8fSZyzUAtAtVWV9dh46GrXsQlsjizPXY%2Bs1ewCuC4FIK2csJSat2tHlQYmB34MhU5EnSnH8H%2BtoRWY6ybFIAw%2BtNgRe%2B3O8puSMdFBoFUdG9wm5daS1mhTkYPV9zljmSsRdH%2BOyAOahGrf&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338779481&customid=&toolid=10049&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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[ Nanao Tavito / Leaving Heaven ] cover by  maliebones

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test shoot KIRON 28-210mm F3.8-5.6 MACRO

 Canon FD lens mount Vintage lens 

1987?

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Macro Shots — Phil Perkins · Photography

Macro Shots — Phil Perkins · Photography

Welcome to my first experiment using a mirrorless camera with an inexpensive Canon-FD-Lens-Mount-to-Nikon-Z-Camera-Mount adapter. I always wanted to try my old lenses, formerly paired with a Canon AE-1, on a new camera. However, with lenses made by different companies, I’d (wrongly) assumed that each would require a unique adapter. In fact, only the lens mount […] Macro Shots — Phil Perkins ·…

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CANON New FD 24mm F2.8 Manual Focus Lens

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A7rii shutter counter

#A7rii shutter counter manual

When using a camera with an undamped / loud shutter mechanism.When using long focal length lenses (telephoto and supertelephoto) and relatively slow shutter speeds (typically below reciprocal rule values).The typical danger zone is 1/2 to 1/50th of a second for most lenses. At particular shutter speeds relative to the focal length of the lens.However, don’t be too scared of it, since it is not something you will see in every image, as shutter shock only happens under particular conditions, such as the following: Now if you are wondering how the image would have looked without any shutter shock, take a look at the below crop, captured with the same camera:Ī night and day difference, wouldn’t you agree? This is perhaps the worst case scenario of the type of damage shutter shock can bring to your images. Since this image was shot at 1/8th of a second at 170mm focal length using a 70-200mm zoom lens on a 45 MP Nikon D850 camera, the effect of shutter shock was very noticeable in this image, making it look unusable. However, when the same image is viewed at 100% to reveal all the details as seen below from a high-resolution camera, it is clear that it looks quite blurry – individual leaves are all blotchy and the detail in tree branches is barely visible: Unfortunately, shutter shock can be observed on any camera that has a mechanical shutter mechanism, so it can happen on DSLRs, mirrorless cameras and even some point and shoot cameras.Īt web resolution, the image looks great when it is exported and sharpened in Lightroom. However, it turns out that the DSLR mirror is not the only source of camera shake that can cause blurry images – shutter shock originating from the shutter mechanism opening before the start of the exposure can be equally damaging under certain conditions. DSLR shooters are typically aware of the mirror mechanism potentially causing camera shake (also known as “mirror slap”), so when seeing blurry images in the field, they often use specific camera modes as “Mirror Up” or features such as “Exposure Delay Mode” in order to reduce or even eliminate camera shake from the mirror. While improper hand-holding techniques, tripod instability and wind are often blamed for blurry photographs, one source of camera shake is rarely thought of – and that is shutter shock. The latter, in particular, is a rather frustrating issue, because photographers often cannot properly determine the source of the issue. Lenses that resolved well in the past don’t seem to cut it anymore on high resolution cameras, computers need to be updated with beefier specifications to handle large RAW files, and camera shake has become much more noticeable in images when fully zoomed in. With the increase of camera resolution on modern digital cameras, we have seen a number of issues arise. Shutter Shock and Its Effect on Image Quality Enabling EFCS on Sony Mirrorless Camerasġ.What is Electronic Front-Curtain Shutter?.Shutter Shock and Its Effect on Image Quality.Any of the Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras may be just the ticket for you.

#A7rii shutter counter manual

For those working from a tripod (or doing manual e xposure and focus for creative control reasons), spend the time you planned to spend in any case and spend the money you did not spend on modern auto-everything lenses on getting to the place to take the picture. That is bad for sports photographers and parents of active children. Professional grade manual focus lenses (e.g., Canon FD 85mm f1.2L, Canon FD 200mm f4 macro, and many others from Nikon, Pentax, Minolta, and other makers) will work more slowly than auto-everything lenses-for a small fraction of the price. Any photographer willing to focus manually and use either manual exposure or aperture priority automatic exposure can put those old manual focus lenses back to work. Great behind a celestial telescope! No mirror slap to ruin the picture! With a suitable adapter, chose one among many, this compact camera puts an excellent imaging engine behind manual focus lenses made from the 1960s until camera manufacturers went nuts over auto focus. Bringing Canon FD-mount Glass Back to Life

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Warm Arrival by Hayden Williams Via Flickr: Canon AE-1 FD 50mm f/1.8 Lomochrome Purple Haneda Airport This was the first thing I saw in Japan //INSTAGRAM// //WEBSITE//

[leonsgalmar]

- Mount fuji of 3 years ago -

Camera: Canon AE-1 Lens: FD 50mm Film: Fujifilm commercial color film 100/36 Date taken: May 19, 2018 Correction program: Photoshop CS5

I'm not doing photography very well because of my work these days. Three years ago in May, I played in Tokyo, Japan for two nights and three days, and on the last day, I took a picture on an airplane while returning home. Mount Fuji is always amazing and beautiful to see. I think I'll be upset these days because I can't even go on a trip I want to go because of Covid-19. Still, everyone has to work hard.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Deitz 135mm MC Zoom 1:2.8 Camera Lens Canon FD Mount With Case No. 815359.