canon fd lens on camera made for ef lens

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I have several canon FD lens. I want to use them on a digital body. The EOS-D60 is made for EF lens. Can the FD lens be used on this camera body?

-- Wes Benstine (wbenstine@yahoo.com), May 07, 2002

Answers

Not directly. There are adapters made to allow you to attach FD mount lenses to EF mount bodies, but you loose auto aperture control and auto focus. Also the two types of adapters that have been made to do this either cause you to loose infinity focus or they have lens elements in them that act as a low power teleconverter. Neither adapter is being made today, but they are available used. Hard to find though. In the end, unless you have some fairly exotic glass, you're better off selling the FD lenses and buying EF mount lenses.

-- Jim Strutz (j.strutz@gci.net), May 08, 2002.

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