These guys have developed an adapter ring to allow the use of older Canon lenses from the 70s, 80s, and early 90s with the current Canon digital cameras. Wahoo!
I just saw your note.
I was really disappointed in Canon when they hyped that you could use the older lenses in their digital and then was told by Canon that what they ment by “older” was a year or two old!
Have you gotten to try the adaptor yet? It would sure be nice to use my Canon lenses again!
Just bought one, after about 60 minutes of BS with eBay!!! Now we shall see if it works as advertised.
Paul -
Please report back with your results. Depending on the lens, I think you might get some corner cutting since the image area on a digital camera is not exactly the same as a 35MM.
If you have success, there might be some good buys out there on old glass.
EDIT: I just re-read one of my lens guides and I may have it backwards. Some of the Digital camera lenses, like the Tamaron Di II are designed for cameras with small image sensors. When used on 35MM or digital with large image sensors they will cause vignetting. A digital with a small image sensor (like my Rebel Xti) would not be able to see the entire image captured by a lens designed for a 35MM camera, but it would see the center of the image just fine.
Did anybody ever get one of the things and try it out yet ??? I have several K-bucs worth
of Canon FD lenses that I’d love to be able to make use of… Always been real disappointed
that Canon didn’t make some sort of adapter to fit the FDs to the digital bodies…
Paul R…
One of the reasons why I bought my Pentax *ist digital is because it uses all my K-mount lenses from my 35mm.
If I ever bought another digital camera it would also be an SLR style Pentax because I too still have my old K-mount 35 mm lenses.
I love the *ist, but it does eat batteries pretty quickly. But not having to shell out several thousand in new lenses makes that less of a pain.
I don’t know about this guys. I am pretty happy with my Canon 8 mp Power Shot. I have a bunch of old Canon FD lenses, and some Pentax lenses. But I don’t think I will go back to an SLR.
Actually for train videos, as well as Videos while I am riding my ATV I am looking at the GoPro Hero HD camera. This is a really awesome camera for action, and movement. Just the thing for moving trains, either onboard or not. Actually Brian Donovan posted some videos here last year taken with one of these cameras and they are excellent.
So, anybody want to buy some Canon lenses. I will also throw in an AE1. I still have two bodies. Can you still buy film?
Where the heck has Brian Donovan been?
Good question. I haven’t hear from him on any of the forums this year. I sent him an email just this morning to see what was up. We will see if he appears.
Paul
Paul Bottino said::lol: :lol:
.......... So, anybody want to buy some Canon lenses. I will also throw in an AE1. I still have two bodies. Can you still buy film?
You know a friend of mine got to try out both my old Canon Digital Rebel and my Yashica FR, what is she going for? The FR! Does she worry about film, getting stuff developed and all the rest? Nope!
BTW if you hang out on some of the photo sites and read one or two of photo mags, you’ll quickly find out that there is life after/besides digital … it’s called real film!
OTOH I wouldn’t go back to film, too many possibilities with digital and getting more numerous every day. 
I still like the 100,000 megabytes of “information” I can get with film, though
Steve Featherkile said:Here comes the "dirty question": how often do you look at your slides and/or prints? And how large are your prints to make full use of the info that is there? ;) :)
I still like the 100,000 megabytes of "information" I can get with film, though
I don’t know, once we made the switch from film bodies to digital SLR bodies we were pretty much hooked. It’s been over 6 years now and I can’t think of one time when I wanted to go back to film. I’m pretty happy with the EF lenses too. Especially the L glass.
Jon.
So they’re saying with this adapter lens used on a Canon T70 will work with . . . ?
doug c
My sister got one of the early Canon digital rebels. She also had some old Canon lenses that went with her classic Canon AE1 (telephoto, wide angle, and fish eye). She got one of the adapter rings for the old lenses.
They old lenses worked on the new camera, but not the best. The image quality was fine, but the interface between the old lens and the new mounting was cumbersome and didn’t always set/lock. And getting it off was even harder.
She ended up getting a new telephoto lens for the digital camera as she was fed up with the difficulty in taking on and off the old lenses.
She still uses an old flash that was originally for the AE1. And that works great. Easy on and off.
Her lens adapter was like the Bower one. Not the first one posted with the chip. But seeing as she had no issues with the photo quality I’m not sure if the chip would matter. The big issue is the fit.
You’ve got to be extremely careful with the old flash units on the newer bodies. If I remember correctly the trigger voltage was something crazy like 60 volts on the old flash units. The new units are only a few volts. You can buy a hot shoe adapter but they are expensive.
Jon.