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peter k.

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Friend gave me this lens, need to know what camera it fits, as its not a Cannon or Nikon lens

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Oh that makes sense, the Nikons digital D-90 we have will also take the my old film lenses, but evidently not Cannon.
Hmmm... would love to use it, will have to check and see if there is an adapter we can get so it would fit the Nikon
 
peter k. said:
Well we have a Cannon EOS Elan7ne and it does not fit.
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Canon - one N. it's certainly not a cannon lens...

As said the EOS series has an EF mount. The FD mount cameras preceded those; the last ones were the Canon T-series (T50/70/90) and the still popular Canon A-series. Those are manual focus systems exclusively.

There's no practical way to use this lens on a modern EOS or Nikon camera. There are adapters that allow them to be used on modern mirrorless digital cameras.

peter k. said:
will have to check and see if there is an adapter we can get so it would fit the Nikon
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Don't bother.
 
Yep, Canon changed it mount when for AF. Nikon and Pentax maintained their mount Minolta also had a complete new designs. The film to flange distance is very different, Canon did make an adapter for FD to EF for the L telephotos which used a glass balance, you might be able to find one. Other wise a Canon FD body can be had for not much money, look for working. Here is an ebay link to a FD to EOS adapter. the issue is that some will not allow for focus to infinity. Other issue is that an adaptor with glass balance will act as a teleconverter.

 
peter k. said:
Oh that makes sense, the Nikons digital D-90 we have will also take the my old film lenses, but evidently not Cannon.
Hmmm... would love to use it, will have to check and see if there is an adapter we can get so it would fit the Nikon
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I don't think you'll find an adapter for Canon FD lens to Nikon F mount. At least that will allow infinity focus anyway. I have used this same lens on my Sony A7RII mirrorless camera and I think there are adapters for FD to Olympus Micro 4/3 also. There are many different makes of 400mm 5.6 or 6.3 lenses out there, but most are not worth messing with and only become fairly sharp at small apertures of f11-16. If yours is the same exact lens as my Vivitar 400mm f5.6 you are lucky. This lens is very good even at f5.6, but much, much better between f8 and f11. Any lens that can stand up to the 42mp sensor of the Sony A7RII and have decent contrast and sharpness is a winner.
 
Thanks for the info... ok no go for an adapter.

Hmmm If we wanted to try it out on a Digital Cannon, what Cannon model would that be?
 
That looks to me like a Vivitar with an interchangeable lens mount -- TX, maybe. Send us a pix of the SIDE if the rear of the lens -- where it's marked "C/FD". I bet there is a lever that you can move to remove it and use another mount.
 
That is a fixed mount Vivitar. I have one. There are better 400mm mm lenses that can be found.
 
xkaes said:
That looks to me like a Vivitar with an interchangeable lens mount -- TX, maybe. Send us a pix of the SIDE if the rear of the lens -- where it's marked "C/FD". I bet there is a lever that you can move to remove it and use another mount.
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I looked at the mount when I first read the thread, but didn't think it was aTX or T4 or whatever. I think it's just the standard older style FD mount, but could be wrong since I'm not an expert on Canon FD mount systems. I know Canon did use two different FD mounts that both work, but look different. To use it on a digital camera you'd have to get a mirrorless digital camera. With a mirrorless digital camera you can use almost any older lens and be able to focus at infinity.
 
ags2mikon said:
That is a fixed mount Vivitar. I have one. There are better 400mm mm lenses that can be found.
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This is the Vivitar f5.6 version 400mm and it's better than all the f6.3 400mm lenses I've tried. Mind surprised me so much after testing it that I retested my Leica 400mm f6.8. To make a long story short..........I sold my Leica 400mm and kept the Vivitar. I know it sounds very hard to believe, but the dang Vivitar was better than my Leica 400mm and my Leica 400mm glass was in great shape. Of course there are Nikon 400mm lenses and Canon 400mm lenses that are much better, much faster and much more expensive also, but for a cheap costing lens the 400mm f5.6 Vivitar is, in my book, very good.
 
peter k. said:
Thanks for the info... ok no go for an adapter.

Hmmm If we wanted to try it out on a Digital Cannon, what Cannon model would that be?
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There are Canon FD to EOS EF mount adapters, the one you want is one with a glass balance lens. There must FD to Canon Mirrorless as well. Just go to ebay and put in FE to EOS adapter. I dont know who made the Vivitar 400 5.6, I have the Sigma and a Tonika version in Pentax K and Minolta MD mounts, they are ok, nothing I would spend much money on.
 
Paul Howell said:
There are Canon FD to EOS EF mount adapters, the one you want is one with a glass balance lens. There must FD to Canon Mirrorless as well. Just go to ebay and put in FE to EOS adapter. I dont know who made the Vivitar 400 5.6, I have the Sigma and a Tonika version in Pentax K and Minolta MD mounts, they are ok, nothing I would spend much money on.
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Yes, I had the Sigma and it is terrible. Looks nice, handles well, but its image quality leaves much to be desired. The Sigma 400mm f5.6 macro version is said to be much better, but I have never tried that one.
The only way to reach infinity focus using an FD lens on a Canon EOS EF camera is to use a "speed boost" type adapter. That's the one you mention Paul, with the glass lens element in it. You don't need those with mirrorless cameras since they only need an empty adapter to work.
 
peter k. said:
Hmmm If we wanted to try it out on a Digital Cannon, what Cannon model would that be?
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One of the mirrorless ones; e.g. Canon R-series. This allows an adapter without glass and infinity focus because there's more space between the lens and the sensor for the adapter to fit in. Forget about the regular DSLR Canons.

But if you want to use this lens on digital, there's no particular advantage to using it with a Canon camera. Might as well be e.g. Sony.
 
Koraks is right, just get any interchangeable lens mirrorless camera. If you go M4/3 (Olympus or Panasonic) your lens Vivitar 400mm automatically becomes a 800mm Vivitar. On a full-frame camera like my Sony A series camera it stays 400mm.
 
This is very interesting ... thanks for all the replies.

Since we have had Cataracts Surgery in both eyes, we are now starting to get back into shooting...
Lately its been with a D-90, .. using our old Nikon lenses to get back into the habit.

Ah haha ha... will have to see were this all leads ... šŸ™ƒ
 
ags2mikon said:
That is a fixed mount Vivitar. I have one. There are better 400mm mm lenses that can be found.
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I have a 400mm f5.6 Vivitar with a 77mm filter thread with an interchangeable lens mount. So if Peter's lens has a serial # that starts with 37 -- Tokina -- like mine, it might be interchangeable. I use it on my Sony A-mount SLRs with a M42 mount -- and am M42 to A-mount adapter.
 
The Sony NEX is E-mount. The Vivitar was likely made in versions for most popular systems at the time (Canon FD, Nikon F, Pentax K, etc.) If yours is the same as the OPs in the first photo, then you need a Canon FD to Sony E adapter. Something like this:

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But again, Vivtar made versions of their lenses for numerous different systems, so you'll need to confirm what mount your lens uses.
 
It is a FD mount, if you look at the very bottom of the image O/P posted the is marked as C/Fd.
 
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