A Camera Question

[Shades]

No....not the hidden variety.

I have some lenses that I bought for my old single lense reflex cameras...a Canon, although the lenses were different makes of zoom and wide angle lenses. If I buy a new SLR Digital camera body will the old lenses fit? Or am I looking at a set of new lenses?

Thanks
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[huck]

it depends...

Lenses that fit a Canon EOS film SLR will certainly work on their current digital line up. I have a Canon EOS Elan 7 for film, and a Canon EOS 10D and 20D DSLRs, and my lens line up works interchangably between them all.

Older Canon cameras such as the ones with the FD mount (AE-1, etc) need a special adapter to work with an EOS DSLR -- the big downside is that the adapter causes some lenses to lose the ability to focus at infinity.

Some third party lenses notably Sigma might need to be re-chipped to work with a DSLR.

 

[Shades]

Thanks for the input. There doesn't seem to be a simple yes, no answer so I guess the best bet will be to take the lenses with me when I go to look at the new DSLR bodies.

 

[tboy]

Lenses that fit a Canon EOS film SLR will certainly work on their current digital line up. I have a Canon EOS Elan 7 for film, and a Canon EOS 10D and 20D DSLRs, and my lens line up works interchangably between them all.

Older Canon cameras such as the ones with the FD mount (AE-1, etc) need a special adapter to work with an EOS DSLR -- the big downside is that the adapter causes some lenses to lose the ability to focus at infinity.

Some third party lenses notably Sigma might need to be re-chipped to work with a DSLR.

That's odd, I spoke to Canon directly and they said no way, no how, sorry. I will have to look into these adapters and if they are available. I was told there was an adapter for the autofocus lens' from later years but not the FD and FL lens'. It's a shame because my 6, 7 or so are in mint condition and worth about $12.00 each as a trade in for new (as per Henry's).

 

[huck]

That's odd, I spoke to Canon directly and they said no way, no how, sorry. I will have to look into these adapters and if they are available.

Check out dpreview.com or fredmiranda.com. There are countless threads of people attaching FD, Nikon, Leica, etc.. glass onto the EOS. You can probably do a search on eBay for dealers of such adapters and correlate with dpreview or FM to find out which ones work best.

 

[huck]

All I can say is, I love Canon, but thank God for Sigma lenses.

Once you make the switch to L glass you'll swear off Sigma... I'm still trying to sell off my Sigma glass or pawn it off to my SO.

 

[DistantVoyeur]

Check into the Sony Alpha. They bought out Minolta-Konica for the technology. The old Minolta autofocus lenses work on the new body. 10.3 Megapixel and the anti-shake is built into the body. Can generally get the minolta lenses relatively cheap as well. I'm just waiting for the price to drop a bit.

 

[MarkII]

Any EF mount will work with a Canon DSLR. The older F or L series lenses will not. There may be adapters but you will lose some of the lens functionality.

The only difference in current Canon lenses is this: All DSLR's will accept EF lenses. EF-S lenses will only fit on certain DSLR's due to how far back into the camera body they go. I know the Rebel series can use the EF-S series not sure on the 10-30D series. The will not fit on 1 series or the 5D bodies.

 

[MarkII]

I still miss the manual lens system. They had a feel to them I really liked.