I've got a 135 f/2.5 recently as well.I have one.
Thank you, I didn't know what the minimum focussing distance was.
I don't have any images particularly worth uploading, but that's certainly not because of the lens. It's quite light, and as good or better image quality than my modern canon 80-200 mm zoom. (not that I've shot any test charts with it).
It's really nice and solid, and has a good feel. Great focussing ring. I bought it to use outdoors, and that's why I don't have many pics with it. Indoors, 200 mm is a bit much, I use 35mm for intimacy, and the FL 135mm f2.5 for portraits, (also cheap, I TOTALLY recommend it)
I've had quite a bit of canon primes which were dogs and they were made in the last 15 years. So when picking up something canon from the 70s, single coated and cheap even back then... I have a couple of areas to be concerned about.I'm not sure though, what you could be concerned about. It's a CANON, it's a PRIME lens and if even when you stop down to F8, totally doable shutterspeed outdoors with ISO100 or ISO 50 film.
HeheYou'll get sharp as hell pictures with that combo, unless you are going for the cliche shot of a hummingbird head on, from a moving vehicle.
You might need ISO 400 for that one.
I think what you have perhaps isn't a FD lens but the earlier FL lens whose closest focusing distance is 2.5 metres and has 5 elements in four groups, none of the FD 200mm lenses were f4.5 some of them were f4, I have one of the later versions of the FD 200mm f4 for about twenty years, I'm very happy with the performance. I hope you enjoy using it Audrey as much as I have mine.This one is not SC and not SSC, the earlier version of them all.
I got one for 40 bucks and I'm curious to see if anybody else has one.
How do you like it? Any images?
I think what you have perhaps isn't a FD lens but the earlier FL lens whose closest focusing distance is 2.5 metres and has 5 elements in four groups, none of the FD 200mm lenses were f4.5 some of them were f4, I have one of the later versions of the FD 200mm f4 for about twenty years, I'm very happy with the performance. I hope you enjoy using it Audrey as much as I have mine.
Sorry Audrey, your right I have misread it.It's an F/4 lens, not the f/4.5
I think you misread, the minimum focusing distance is 2.5 meters, which makes you step away sometimes.
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