Discussion Forum for various Lenses of different major labels in a shared environment at Photography In Malaysia

1. From : rick oleson (rick_oleson@yahoo.com)
Url : http://rick_oleson.tripod.com
Date : 08:38 AM Thursday 31 January, 2008

Hi Ryan:

There are a couple of answers already, but I'll toss in my 2 cents worth: You don't need an adapter. If the lens was made to fit the AE1, it would just go on pretty much the same way as your standard lens (although there are 2 different styles of FD mount, they both fit the same cameras). If the lens has a mount that does not fit the AE1 directly, then it was made for a different make of camera and will not adapt to the AE1.

2. From : JWoods (centurywoods@noSPAM.com)
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Date : 01:05 PM Wednesday 30 January, 2008

Ryan Anderson: Basically you have to tell us your brand of the camera. What do you intend to find out. The " lens adapter" can be many things such as macro, teleconverter, adpters to other accessories or even use your lens originally designed for another brand to fit to another camera with a different mount etc... so, you have to furnish other info without letting us guessing. Thanks.

3. From : JWoods (centurywoods@noSPAM.com)
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Date : 01:00 PM Wednesday 30 January, 2008

"Asanuma". Many people said it was a pre-Tokina period company. The name was also being mentioned many times in Japan Photo History. Some web references had quoted the Company was also one of the many contract manufacturer to produce lenses such as even the Vivitar Series 1:- http://www.robertstech.com/vivitar.htm Other References: http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Asanuma This is just to satisfy my personal curiosity and may be some would like to know a little background of this trade name.

4. From : Robert Glenn Middleton (the_redd_groyne@hotmail.co.uk)
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Date : 09:04 AM Wednesday 30 January, 2008

Ryan, Without knowing the type of mount/mount system already fitted to your recently purchased zoom lens, it is impossible to give you any advise. In the worst case, the answer could be that this lens is incompatible with the Canon FD mount.

5. From : Leslie Cheong (leslie_1985@yahoo.com.sg)
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Date : 11:29 PM Tuesday 29 January, 2008

Quick Question: I am using a Nikon D70s with two zoom lenses (AF 24-85/AF70-210). My uncle recently gave me a few Nikkor lenses which are manual focus. One of which is a very fast 35mm f/1.4. From what I can gather from this site, it is a non-AI Lens. I do understand manual focus lenses won't show info in my camera but it can still take pictures in aperture and manual mode. But since it is an older version, Nikon (which includes some web references) warns the lens is not suitable to use with a Digital SLR such as mine. Waht can I do ? I heard many good things with the lens. Any suggestions ?

6. From : Ryan Anderson (ryan_a73@hotmail.com)
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Date : 12:18 PM Tuesday 29 January, 2008

I have a CANON AE-1, and just recently aquired a asanuma auto-zoom 1:45 f= 80mm ~250mm lens. What type of adater do I need? And how available are they?

7. From : rick oleson (rick_oleson@yahoo.com)
Url : http://rick_oleson.tripod.com
Date : 10:19 AM Tuesday 29 January, 2008

Hi C Phelps: If macro is all you need, you're in luck. There are FD-EOS adapters that will fit your macro lens to the DSLR... look for one that does NOT allow you to focus to infinity.

There are also FD-EOS adapters that allow infinity focus, but the focus correcting element in the adapter degrades the image quality... not a good bargain for any purpose, but particularly if you want to shoot macro, you'd be giving up quality unnecessarily if you got one of those.

8. From : C Phelps (c_phelps@cox.net)
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Date : 06:43 AM Tuesday 29 January, 2008

I'm looking for a lens adaptor for a digital Canon Rebel xti that would enable a Canon Macro Lens 100mm FD 1:4 to fit. Do you all know of anything like that?

Thanks!

9. From : rick oleson (rick_oleson@yahoo.com)
Url : http://rick_oleson.tripod.com
Date : 11:58 AM Monday 28 January, 2008

Hi Jeff: If your lenses have the "fork" on the aperture ring at the 5.6 position, then you don't need to use stop-down metering - just mount the lens as you would an earlier lens and the camera works as it was intended.

If you use a lens that does NOT have the metal coupling "fork", then here's what you do: Mount the lens, and make sure that the aperture-coupling pin on the camera body is pushed all the way clockwise (as you look at it from the front) as far as it will go. Now, your meter will work, but it does not know what aperture your lens is set to. To take a meter reading, press the Depth-of-Field button to 'stop down' the lens to the aperture that you have selected. The meter now reads correctly, but only as long as you hold the DOF button down. If you're selecting the shutter speed manually, use the DOF button to check that it's correct; if you're on AUTO, hold the button in as you release the shutter (this may be a little awkward) so that you'll get the correct shutter speed.

10. From : Jeff Shea (ask@yoursite.com)
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Date : 11:21 AM Monday 28 January, 2008

Shy to ask but always kept wondering what is the stopped down metering means. I have bought a Nikomat EL (Japan version) but my lenses are the newer types (MANUL), the instruction in your site stated the "stopped down metering". I don't know how to use it and have not try out how it functions. THANKS !

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