Canon FD 20mm 1:2.8

[Phillip Reeve]

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The Canon FD 2.8/20 is a very nice and affordable super wide angle lens, I have used mine for over a year now and i am very happy with the results.

 

For more information you can check out my review: Canon FD 20mm 1:2.8

 

If you have any questions please ask.

 

Phillip

[DCB]

Great pictures!

 

I need a good wide angle lens.

 

Peace

[tommiehansen]

Great images.

 

Other reviews tend to point out that older WA's often have more problems than newer ones and in that respect don't you think it would be wiser to spend $350 on a newer design? ($350 was the chepeast nFD 20 2.8 i could find at eBay).

[Phillip Reeve]

Great images.

 

Other reviews tend to point out that older WA's often have more problems than newer ones and in that respect don't you think it would be wiser to spend $350 on a newer design? ($350 was the chepeast nFD 20 2.8 i could find at eBay).

So which newer design for $350 are you thinking about? I don't know any apart from CaNikons 2.8/20 lenses which will perform very similar to this lens. Plus $350 is a bit high the lens usually sells for a little over $200.

 

At f/2.8 this lens is pretty bad. At f/11 it is really great. For landscapes I usually use f/11 so it works great for that.

[cvt01]

I think the Samyang / Rokinon is the only WA in the 350 pricerange, I'm not sure if that is what tommiehansen is referring to though.

[Golem]

I'm pretty sure that "N-FD" doesn't especially mean

a later optical design than regular "FD". "N-FD" was

canon's designation for their overly complex "faux

bayonet" mounting system, which replaced the original

simple, reliable, breach locking ring. So I can't see

paying extra for an "N-FD".

 

"N" = "new".

"N-FD" = "new FD".

 

But "FD" is NOT an optical designation. It designates

the meter-coupled breach lock that replaced the "FL"

mount which was the same breach lock but was suitable

only for metering at working aperture.

 

The very earliest Canon SLR breach lock was the "R"

mount, whose auto-iris lever is incompatible with the

later "FL" breach lock mount, but since the mount is

the same, I spoze an "R" mount lens would work on a

manual-only breach lock to mirrorless adapter, since

all the dimensional specs of the body flange never

changed from "R" to "FL" to "FD" to "N-FD".

 

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FWIW, IIRC [witch eye bleeb eye dew], the purpose of

the "N-FD" was to coddle the idiots Canon attracted by

replacing the [wondrous] Canon FE with the [way toidy]

AE-1. Apparently, the unusualness of a breach lock was

feared by Canon's marketing mavens as likely to reduce

market share.

 

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Thatz history for today chilrin. Tomorrow we will study

shutter actuating mechanisms of the peloponnesian era.

 

 

 

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