CANON FDn 50MM 1.4 BAYONET FIT FAST LENS. THE OPTICS ARE CLEAR AND BRIGHT WITH NO SCRATCHES, BLEMISHES OR SIGNS OF FUNGUS, AND IS OIL FREE.  BECAUSE OF THIS THE APERTURE BLADES ARE NICE AND SNAPPY. THE BARREL IS VIRTUALLY UNMARKED. SMOOTH FOCUSING ACTION. COMPLETE WITH A 52mm  HOYA SKYLIGHT (1B) FILTER and FRONT AND REAR CAPS.


Included with this Quality CANON Lens we have a QUALITY FD to EOS Adapter designed and Built in Scotland by a fellow EBAY Member. The Lens Doctor is rapidly becomeing well know for designing and assembling Adapters which allow your Film or Digital EOS Cameras to operate with the earlier SUPERIOR CANON FD Manual Focus Lenses. Please read below for more information provide by my good friend Eddie Houston, better known as the LENS DOCTOR.

PLease read below for more information on our unique single Adapter Infinity/Macro

for Canon FD mount lens or accessories to Canon EOS (D)SLR Camera Body (for all Canon EF mount film SLR and DSLR models including 5D,5D MK11, 7D, 20D, 40D,50D, 350D, 450D, 500D,550D,60D, etc.

Front and rear caps included to protect you lens when not attached to the camera. (Avoids you needing to remove the adapter to get your FD cap to fit). 

The adapter is aluminium construction with brass fittings and has Lens Doctor fitted Hoya Ultra Dispersion Glass, fully removable giving this unique adapter the flexibility of Macro or Infinity, within one adapter. DESIGNED AND SUPPLIED FROM U.K.


The adapter allows focusing to infinity & Macro with auto focus confirmation.


This brand new adapter will allow you to use old style Canon FD mount mechanical mount lenses and macro accessories on Canon EOS cameras. With AF confirm this facility utilises the Cameras built in electronics to be used in confirming focal point selected.

How does it do it?  ............. This AF confirm adapter fools the Canon EOS Camera into thinking you have a fully Automatic EF lens in place, and you have switched the toggle switch on these lenses to M (manual).. by manually focusing the FD lens when you reach focal point the camera uses its Digital electronics and confirms focus through the in built chip on the adapter. So in essence you are using an FD lens , manual focus but benefiting from all the Digital electronics in the EOS camera range at a fraction of the cost of a EF fully automatic lens. Also in AV mode the Camera will calculate your exposure speed, after you have manually selected your desired "F" stop. In many peoples opinion including my own, these FD lenses are far superior to the consumer end Canon EF lenses, that are frequently now unreliable.    

 

 

 


Canon's most famous as well as the most popular standard lens were the New FD 50mm f1.2L and also the New FD 50mm f/1.4 lens. Both lenses have excellent reputations for high performances and stable image reproduction capabilities. The 50mm f/1.4 lens was used for optical measurements at various public institutions and is also the standard which determines color balance for the rest of the nearly 60 lenses in the FD series. Perhaps instead of "standard", a more accurate name would be "reference" lens.

Canon's standard lens are excellent for a number of reasons; suitable for low light shooting situations, offers greater flexibility to choose faster shutter speeds with their fast maximum apertures and focusing in dim lighting conditions is another advantage with their bright viewfinder images. also due to the larger apertures concerned.


Strengths:    Optics. Weight. Handling. Looks. Price. Arguably better than the faster f/1.2 version and certainly an improvement over the earlier f/1.4 breechlock version.

Weaknesses:    If there were any I would list them here, but there are none.

Bottom Line:   

Mine is the later version of the 50mm f/1.4, but I once owned the earlier S.S.C Breechlock version which I found to be one of the heaviest lenses I have ever owned. The later version I own now is much less bulkier, plus the focusing is not as stiff and it looks and handles much better than the old version too. Of course, if you can afford it, buy an f/1.4 instead of an f/1.8 (or even the faster f/1.2), it will be money very well spent. I feel that every photographer should own a good standard prime lens such as this f/1.4, even though people disregard it as too short for portraiture and too long for landscapes, there is certainly a strong element of truth in that but most of the people who say this tend to use zoom lenses and the optics are inferior to any prime lens. The zoom lenses that are of any discernable quality cost immense sums of money and are only suited to professional sports or press photographers who can afford them. I believe it is the lens which makes the camera, so I can live without zoom lenses. I stick to using primes, such as my 50mm f/1.4.
 
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