Today we're talking about lenses. In this case an FD mount
lens from Canon's old film era days. There were apparently three different
mounts that use the same common connection point.
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Throughout this video if i make a mistake with all this stuff
feel free to correct me in the comments. Because I really don't know much about
this. This is my first one. I picked this up on
KEH for a nice deal. Or at least a relatively decent
deal, bargain rated. So it does have a warranty. It's really
nice condition... For, I don't know how old it would be. But
it's got to be pretty old. This is a Focal MC Auto 28 millimeter
f/2.8 lens. On this lens I have a 2x
teleconverter, which was.. I think.. maybe two or three dollars. So I thought
might as well get that in addition to the actual 28 millimeter which is
just this part. This mounting system is really confusing.
If you don't do it the proper way you don't get aperture control.
Actually got this conversion with the M5 used
through eBay when I bought the camera itself. The person included this
adapter from FD to EF-M. Let's try this setup. One hour later...
Okay, so confusing. I have the adapter in lock mode.
So the lever is far over to the left side if i'm looking at it
straight on. And this is in open mode. When you push it into there
this... it's spring-loaded, so this ring here will
move to the left if you're looking at it straight on
from the top of the camera. But it's not going to go all the way. You have to
push it all the way so it's fully locked in. At that point
you can switch the adapter's ring to open. And we should have aperture, yep!
So these are not the best ones to buy if you're looking for an easy
quick way to change out lenses and just use old gear.
The reason i think FD is a decent one, or the FL,
or the R.. which there are multiple different versions. I don't know
if they're fully interchangeable. Please, in the comments if you know
specifics. Looks like in 1971 the F1 camera was introduced. And in 1987
the EF came out, which is the
one we all know about. Since FD mount was based upon and replaced
by the earlier FL mount. Which in turn had
been replaced by the R mount. So it says there are 21 plus years of
FD and we've got 134 official Canon lenses in that mount
from 7.5 millimeters to 1,200.
Switching the peaking to low mode
instead of high. So I'm hoping that it'll just make it
easier to be more exact. We'll find out.
I'm going to save that as a custom setting just in case. For canon users,
you're not going to get any benefit using these lenses on your adapted
cameras. It's not going to do anything special
for you. But I think with FD, people are not as enthusiastic
about it as some of the older film era mounts
like M42. So far I've been using this at 5.6 throughout.
Let me switch it to 2.8. I do think FD mount is a good one if you
want a lower price potentially. Because they seem to be decently priced
from what I've seen with comparative.. let's say you look at
this 28 millimeter in this mount versus 28 millimeter.. ahh de..
with a decent aperture in a different mount. It might be a
little bit cheaper for FD. Of course, that really depends on
specifics. One thing I like to do on KEH is go to the bargain listings
and then I buy the ones where they have a listing for
generic of a specific focal length and aperture. In this case the 28 millimeter
f/2.8 was on there for FD mount. It doesn't give you the make or
model of the lens. You just buy the rating of
it without knowing what company's going to make it. You can
get some really junk ones maybe. But I think it's fun to see what you get out
of it. Orange is really hard to do with low peaking...
Let's switch to 5.6.. actually let's do f/8.
Of course, I can use the zoom in feature. So you press this button here
and then you use the top dial to zoom in. In some cases you really have to use
that. It's the only way to get exactly where you want focused on these
type of lenses. It's just a lot slower
I bought a Chinon M42 mount.. ah.. older lens. It was like a 55 millimeter f/1.7.
Sadly, I don't have it anymore but that was one of the lenses I bought
back in the day without knowing what the brand was going to be.
And that lens now is actually pretty pricey for some reason.
This is my first FD lens. With mirrorless it is fun to try out the old film era
stuff and see what you can get out of it. And with the channel how it is, I like
going out with a specific combination of camera.. lens.. just taking photos with
it and finding out how decent it is.
We've got a spider web, very interesting!
This tiny little...
That was talking about FD lenses and trying out this
28 millimeter f/2.8 Focal MC Auto lens!
Nice build quality. FD is a little fiddly but
sometimes you might get a bit of better cost per
performance ratio on there.
Hope you enjoyed the video. Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks!