why are canon fd lenses so inexpensive

[Jeff Kubach]

There is an ancient saying here :

You can not make a great meal with cheap meat. Canon bodies are designed by architects not photographers. They are angular , not hand friendly and weight is not balanced. I dont know why people loves toyotas and canons. If I am an artist and if there is an competition , I dont prefer toyotas as my race car but an mercedes, audi or bmw. This is correct analogy.

Another dumb comment.

Jeff

 

[Rick A]

Does this guy ever put his hands on a real camera, or does he have too much time on his hands to invent these absurdities?

 

[darinwc]

Take it easy.
He is entitled to his opinions and he has his own unique way of expressing himself.

 

[MDR]

Canon FD lenses are cheap because so many of them were sold and the FD mount is an orphaned system. Great lenses, much sharper than similar Olympus or Pentax optics. Panavision used FD mount lenses for some of their anamorphic and spherical lens constructions. The Canon K35 motion picture lenses are converted FD lenses and are quiet sharp not Zeiss sharp mind you but sharp. As a Nikon user I have to say that the Canon F1 is a great camera and Canon FD lenses were usually faster than their Nikon counterpart. Olympus rules in the macro and micro world but their standard lenses lack any kind of character (super neutral) making them the right choice for scientific photography.

Dominik

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

here here

Take it easy.
He is entitled to his opinions and he has his own unique way of expressing himself.

If APUGers are too harsh with each other's opinion and postings, this might discourage postings.

 

[AgX]

There is an ancient saying here :

You can not make a great meal with cheap meat. Canon bodies are designed by architects not photographers. They are angular , not hand friendly and weight is not balanced. I dont know why people loves toyotas and canons. If I am an artist and if there is an competition , I dont prefer toyotas as my race car but an mercedes, audi or bmw. This is correct analogy.

Try and grab a T-90.

 

[lxdude]

is that Vivitar lens made by Kiron or Cosina or Bob's Sandwich Shop And Lens Grinder?

I order the Lens Grinder every time I go to Bob's.

 

[dtmateojr]

They are pretty much useless for a modern camera. Got a 50/1.8, 28/2.8 and a mint AV-1 for $50.

Main reason I switched to Nikon. My old lenses are still usable in a D700.

 

[CD55]

They are pretty much useless for a modern camera. Got a 50/1.8, 28/2.8 and a mint AV-1 for $50.

Main reason I switched to Nikon. My old lenses are still usable in a D700.

Actually the lenses can be used with the micro 4/3rds mirrorless cameras from Olympus and Panasonic and the Sony NEX cameras. You get a 2X crop with the cameras though but they still work well. I like interchanging the lenses with my FD bodies and so I get the best of both analog and that other format that shall remain nameless.

 

[benjiboy]

Canon FD lenses would be even less expensive if digiheads didn't try to adapt them for their 4/3rds and other digital cameras and plunder a technology that they have all but destroyed rather than pay the price for the correct digital lenses for them, not satisfied in inflicting a near fatal wound to analogue photography are now robbing the body.

 

[Thomas.Goehler]

They are pretty much useless for a modern camera. Got a 50/1.8, 28/2.8 and a mint AV-1 for $50.

Main reason I switched to Nikon. My old lenses are still usable in a D700.

The old Nikon fairy tale. True, you can still use them, but the often-heard total compatibility within the Nikon system is only partly true. Especially when you want to use modern AF lenses on old cameras.

 

[mawz]

The old Nikon fairy tale. True, you can still use them, but the often-heard total compatibility within the Nikon system is only partly true. Especially when you want to use modern AF lenses on old cameras.

Indeed, Pentax is the one with real backwards compatibility, since they sell an M42 adapter that allows use of any M42 lens back to 1948. Nikon's compatibility is pretty much AI/AI-converted & newer only unless you have one of the few low-end DSLR's which can also mount many pre-AI lenses (but not meter with them).