It is indeed a sad state to see the FD mount New Canon F-1 has to retired from service this way; it cannot even enjoy potential benefit to utilize the more advance electronic EF mount as with the EOS users back in 1986. As a detaching system users, you may use this site for common support and sharing mutual knowledge or experiences among yourself. Ihope this convenience provided can be of useful to all of you who still owned this great piece of manual focus SLR. You may use this message board as a guestbook for the camera. Enjoy.

1. From : Camilo Yaryura (camiloyaryura@yaryura.com)
Url : http://www.yaryura.com
Date : 11:17 AM Monday 18 February, 2008

I proudly own and use the venerable Canon F-1n with my
FD Canon lens system

I belong to an artistic photographic group witch mainly uses know, digital cameras.

We compare the colors of my Kodachrome 64 slides versus theirs
digital ones, and they aprove that my colors are more brilliant and truly that theirs.

This is the main reason that I stick to my old analog system.

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2. From : soul (ricardo.soul@gmail.com)
Url :
Date : 02:59 AM Friday 01 February, 2008

i recently got this camera from a relative, the NEW CANON F-1 and the camera doesent fire when it has a battery inside (yes its the correct one), it works fine mechanicly whidout a battery but when i put one the meter works and all but the shutter button doesent work...


any idea whats going on ?

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3. From : Jeff Bouma (jeff.bouma@verizon.net)
Url : http://
Date : 12:03 AM Wednesday 30 January, 2008

Saw that a few folks are looking for "New" F-1s in great condition.

The love of my photographic life, my F-1 is going on the eBay auction block January 29th @ 7:00PM PDT (Item number: 190194680385). I just hope that it will go to a great home as I succumb to the digital SLR movement.

Watch for me wearing my black armband of mourning for the next week. I may need psychiatric help to deal with this loss :-(

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4. From : C.C. (just@comment.com)
Url : http://no
Date : 11:33 PM Tuesday 29 January, 2008

The Canon New F1 is a great camera, rugged and very reliable. Mine is still working despite it is 20+ years old. The BEST finally has a home here, which is good... THANKS for the GREAT SITE INFO !

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5. From : rick oleson (rick_oleson@yahoo.com)
Url : http://rick_oleson.tripod.com
Date : 07:16 AM Sunday 13 January, 2008

Hi Nick:

Did they make one of those? I don't recall. There was a hot shoe attachment that was made to slip on over the rewind crank, similar to the system used on the Nikon F....

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6. From : nick (nicktammy@sympatico.ca)
Url : http://
Date : 11:05 PM Saturday 12 January, 2008

I have an early 70's Canon F1 and am looking for a view finder with a top mount flash. Mine does not have one equiped. 2 buttons on either side of the mount release it and it slides back and off. And I don't want to use a flash bulb. Can anyone help or direct me in the right place to look.

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7. From : Kevin M Brennan (saltyfli@aol.com)
Url : http://
Date : 12:21 PM Saturday 05 January, 2008

Quick question, any body know, or have experience using the new Canon 48mm Circular Polarizing (PL-C) Glass Filter - Drop-In that is made for the newer EF autofocus lense on a Canon FD 600mm 4.5? I want to use a polarizer on my FD 600mm lense and don`t know the best or easiest way to get this done. Any help or advice would be a great help. Thanks, Kevin m Brennan saltyfli@aol.com

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8. From : LM Tu (lantu@msn.com)
Url : http://
Date : 11:35 AM Saturday 29 December, 2007

Seems like clicking the "F-1 Message Board" takes me to the "New F-1 Message Board," so here goes. Can anyone tell me how my view finder swivels from vertical view to eye level view? I have the Speed Finder on an old (mechanical) F-1.

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9. From : rick oleson (rick_oleson@yahoo.com)
Url : http://rick_oleson.tripod.com
Date : 11:32 PM Saturday 15 December, 2007

Hi Aydin:

There are adapters to use FD lenses on the EF mount
(EOS) cameras, but they are not ideal.

The basic problem is that there is less space between
the lens mount and the film in an FD camera than there
is in an EOS camera. This means that it is impossible
to make an adapter that will put the FD lens the
correct distance from the film on the EOS camera,
because the camera body itself forces the lens to be
too far forward.

This leaves 2 choices: The first is to make an
adapter ring anyway and just let the lens be too far
forward. In this case the lens will not focus to
infinity, but it can be used in close-up situations.
Just how close up you have to be depends on the lens,
a long telephoto will reach farther than a wide
angle.... but nothing will work at long distances.

The second choice is to make the adapter described
above, and then install a negative glass lens element
in the adapter. This will move the focal plane of the
lens rearward, making up for the extra depth of the
EOS body and the adapter itself so that the lens will
focus to infinity. Although this solves the basic
problem we started with, it creates two new problems
of its own: First, the adapter now becomes a low
power teleconverter, as the lens element magnifies the
image as it moves the focal plane back. This is not
necessarily a negative thing, if you wanted a longer
telephoto lens this gives you an extra boost in focal
length.... but all of your lenses will be a bit
different on the EOS body than they were on the FD,
and wide angles won't see it as a benefit. The second
problem is that any extra element tossed in between a
lens and the film, without being considered in the
design of the prime lens, can be counted on to reduce
the sharpness of the image. In teleconverters,
multiple elements (usually from 4 to 7) are used to
obtain the least possible damage to resolution, but
it's still never perfect.... in these lens adapters,
even if you want to pay for that kind of optics, there
isn't room for it, so you get a single element or at
best a cemented pair, not an ideal optical system to
put between your lens and the image plane.

Adapters of both of the above types are available.
Canon themselves made one with the correcting elements
in it, which (not surprisingly) is the best of this
type that you will find... if you find it.

On the other point, Nikon's lens mount compatibility
is not as great as they would like you to believe.
Yes, they have kept their original bayonet now for 48
years, but there have been a number of changes along
the way that make compatibility questions in that
mount very complex. AI cameras can be damaged by
mounting non-AI lenses, some AF models can't meter
light through manual focus lenses, and now there are
DSLRs that won't autofocus with some AF lenses. I
don't think that Canon has any of these issues,
generally if you can mount a lens it will work.... and
although you can't readily adapt FD lenses, the EOS
bodies with an adapter will accept older Nikon lenses
better than many Nikons do.

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10. From : Aydin Erel (aydin@8sanat.com)
Url : http://8sanat.com
Date : 07:52 PM Wednesday 12 December, 2007

I've been using Canon F1N since 1989 and I've the set of Canon lenses with perfect satisfaction but it's pity that they've changed the bayonet FD lens to EF lens which could be used EOS system or even Digital series. This make the camera obsolescent compare to Nikon. I don't know if there's a ring converts FD to FE ? Please let me know if anyone know that. Thank you.

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