Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:05 PM +0100 2/10/10, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm sure there are plenty of still- or ex-users of Canon FD lenses
>out there. I would appreciate it very much if anyone can point me
>towards the highlights in the FD-mount range of lenses as I have
>recently inherited a CanonTLb and bought (very cheaply) one mint and
>one almost mint except for a couple of brassy dings on 2 corners A1
>bodies complete with winder, motor drive and various other bits and
>pieces.
>
>TIA
>Douglas
>
>
>
I never had a Canon FD mount camera, but used various lenses on other
cameras. The 35TS is outstanding, and only matched recently by the
new Canon 24 and 17 TS-E lenses. I had this adapted to Konica when I
was using that system 35 years ago. I also had a 19/3.5 FL
(non-retrofocus) and then the 17/4 FD and 20/2.8 FD SSC lenses; the
17 was quite good for the time but the 20 wasn't that great. They
were used on Leica M cameras with the Canon-LTM adapter.
The 50/1.2 AL and 85/1.2 were really good, as was the 200/2.8. The
latter lagged maybe slightly behind the 180/2.8 ED of Nikon, but that
was a very high standard.
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