Comments on: Putting FD lenses on a D60

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:32:05 +0000

Nicely done, and there are lots of wonderful FD lenses (and also nice FD-mount aftermarket lenses, such as Vivitar Series 1 in FD-mount).

Here is my question:

How hard would this be to do on a slightly later Canon dSLR, such as XT, XTi, 20D ??

Do you know of anyone who has done this, and has published a how-to on the net?

Look forward to your future projects,
Steve

By: Jason Rivera

Jason Rivera — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:11:25 +0000

the best Telephoto lens that i have used on an SLR is the Canon EF 70-200 F/2.8 lens. Best image quality ever.~:,

By: Madilyn Mcclure

Madilyn Mcclure — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:31:58 +0000

What an exceptional post

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:37:10 +0000

Hey, savad am, piss off.

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:16:34 +0000

The photographer in me is having a boner offa this o.o

By: alex

alex — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:51:54 +0000

@fartface

I don’t think he was going for innovative unless you define that as something you can’t buy. I love old lens and am fortunate enough to have started with nikon so i can use them without trouble.

If i were in the same spot with canon lens, i would dream of doing this.

I’m curious abuot your friends medium format camera. Kiev 88, or Kiev 60? I can’t think of a reason to put a nikon or canon 35mm lens (The only ‘cheep’ lens made by them) on a medium format camera. I would love to know more about that project.

I <3 my kievs

By: fartface

fartface — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:41:24 +0000

Cool, but hardly innovative. high end photographers have been modifying cameras for decades.

I remember a old guy in college that modified his russian build medium format camera to use what he called “low quality, cheap” canon and Nikon lenses for his camera.

The man had photographs all over campus blown up to 20X30..

still cool. they need to affix a bellows to the front to make it cooler!

By: stone

stone — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:17:25 +0000

@entropia:
Yes, it brings a whole new meaning to ‘point and shoot’…!

By: pete

pete — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:34:22 +0000

The Canon D60 was built and sold in 2002, well before Nikon got unoriginal. I call it the FD60 in honor of the adopted mount. Just not sure how to affix the old logo to the new body without it looking ridonculous.

By: brandname

brandname — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:06:49 +0000

Nikon calls theirs the D60, whereas Canon’s model is the 60D

By: sarsface

sarsface — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:35:26 +0000

@nezza: that’s what I was thinking. this site always has canon hacks and I thought us Nikon guys finally caught something

By: theweirdness

theweirdness — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:46:07 +0000

I was confused for a second on the camera make, thought they where talking about the Nikon D60

By: nezza-_-

nezza-_- — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:50:13 +0000

Could you rename D60 to EOS-D60? Cause D60 is also a camera from nikon ;-)

By: localroger

localroger — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:58:53 +0000

i love lens projects. back in the days of film and no autofocus I got a surplus 200mm f4.5 copy lens for about eight bucks and mounted it on a sliding tube with a t-mount; it was heavy and long compared to a normal 200mm telephoto but razor sharp and capable of nearly 1:1 macro. i need to get a dslr and update my old rig for it.

By: entropia

entropia — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:28:14 +0000

canon, not cannon. somehow i think this isn’t the first time its been typo’d. otherwise it’s a nice project. i use fd lenses with a converter on my d30 but it makes infinity focus impossible.