EF lenses have autofocus motors built in and have only electrical contacts between the camera body and the lens to control focus and aperture.
FD lenses have no autofocus and require a mechanical connection with a camera body to control the aperture. Canon FD lenses are amazing lenses that have withstood the test of time. Even though some Canon FD lenses are over 30 years old, they still do an amazing job and take fantastic photos. Using a vintage lens will pretty much force you into understanding focus better by training your eye to see when you are in or out of focus.
And since you can control the aperture with a ring on the lens, you can pretty much preview depth of field on the go. Price and Accessibility — Modern lenses can get very expensive very fast; vintage alternatives are often far cheaper. These lenses were built to last. A few adapters used for fitting various vintage lenses to new digital camera bodies.
You can attach any type of lenses that is suitable for your project, as long as it is compatible with your camera body. Generally, lenses are only compatible with the mounting system for which they are built. The only way to get accurate auto-exposure on a mirrorless camera with a manual focus lens is to use aperture priority metering , also known as A or Av mode. The idea behind A mode is the photographer sets the aperture and the camera chooses the correct shutter speed for the right exposure.
This means the aperture stays wide open while you are focusing, so the viewfinder is nice and bright. Many mirrorless cameras have a live view that is sensitive enough that you can keep the aperture stopped down all the time. Like Like. Now supposing you wanted to use a Canon FD manual focus lens. Anything mirrorless. Avoid SLRs because you have to use an adapter with corrective optics. No specific recommendations, but avoid DSLRs and get a mirrorless camera which will allow proper focussing of your FD lenses.
Whatever you choose, be sure to get the right mounting adapter. It works flawlessly with my original EOS M. I did wince the first time I mounted it and fired the shutter — but it was fine. Your article was helpful and thank you. I wonder — does the focus peaking work with the FD lenses? That would be handy. Jonathan, I just ran across your article about using my old FD lenses on a recently bought, gently used Canon M5 mirrorless camera with no lenses.
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The optical quality of your lens may suffer a little too. However, it may be worth the sacrifice to continue using your lenses? Use a tripod, smaller f-stops and expose well and I recon you would get away with it. No-one makes cameras to fit those lenses anymore unfortunately. The FD lens was a manual focus lens made for Canon by Canon. The EF system came out to match advancing autofocus technology when cameras became electronic.
The EF lenses were one of the first breed of fast autofocus lenses designed to work with the EOS system. If you do buy an adapter, make sure it is compatible. Maybe think about buying a cheaper EF zoom lens such as the EF mm
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