itsrickfromfl Loc: Ocala FL

I know this is an old topic, and until today I thought I had a grip on it. I just got my first DSLR about three years ago, A Rebel T3i. I was looking for additional lenses, and was told the mounting system changed when the digitals were introduced, so you couldn't take the lens from a Canon film camera and use it on a digital, and vice versa.

Today, at a yard sale, I saw a nice tripod very inexpensively priced, and it had a Rebel 2000 EOS film camera with strap and lens cap mounted. I bought it for 15.00. Later, I was telling a friend who shoots weddings about it, and she informed me when she switched to digital, she was using that very camera and the lenses interchanged with no problem! So, I mounted my EF 70-300 and it fit perfectly. The battery was dead in the film camera, so I couldn't test the auto focus to see if it worked.

So, here's what I really want to know. What, if any of the older lenses will work? I run across some occasionally, and actually have had offers to give them to me, and declined, based on what I had been told and read.

We only had one real camera store here, and the box stores have put it out of business, so there's not a lot of places to get expert information.

If it's been covered to death here already, I apologize. I'm on the way to a Kenny Rogers concert, and I'll check back later and hopefully have some pictures to share!

clixpix Loc: Surprise, Arizona

Rick:

You lens that was on the EOS camera you bought should fit you digital cameras. The original Canon mount was the FD which will not fit you EOS camera without the EOS-FD adapter. I do not know if Canon still makes the adapter. In the future, if the lens says EOS, it should fit any digital camera. You can also tell the EOS lens mount by the electronic gold contacts on the lens mount that "speak" to the contacts on the front of your camera lens mount. Hope this helps.

jim quist Loc: Missouri

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/995122-REG/fotodiox_fd_eos_p_pro_canon_eos_camera.html

I use another fotodiox converter to put my old hasselblad lenses on my canon eos. The camera beeps when it is in focus.

itsrickfromfl Loc: Ocala FL

So I learned something new today! Canon made EOS film cameras that shared lenses with their digital models. That solves the mystery. So, if I get the notion to shoot film, the lenses in my kit should work on the Rebel 2000,if I understand this. Thanks!

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

"Autofocus" Canon film lenses will mount on your Rebel. "Manual" focus film lenses were FD mount so they will not fit. So long as its autofocus you will be fine.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Are the FD lenses the breech-lock style or did Canon make another type between those and the current EF models?

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

No, that was the FD's.

marki3rd Loc: Columbus, Indiana

Just to clarify this issue. Canon introduced the EOS auto exposure, auto focus technology with the Canon EOS 650 Camera in 1987. All Canon cameras since then, both film and digital can use the same lenses. These lenses (and there are many, many) are designated EF lenses and as I said, any EOS camera will use them. As mentioned above, the lens mounts that preceded the EF Mount used with all EOS Cameras was the FD Mount but that is going back 25 years.

itsrickfromfl Loc: Ocala FL

Thanks for clearing this up for me!

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Thanks for making me feel old.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

It's, Canon did make a converter, but they are somewhat rare and usually go for between $800-$1000 dollars when you see them.
If you are offered lenses, though this is not likely, then, just as now, Canon made L lenses, and are high quality just like the ones today. Like I said, I doubt anybody has offered you an L lens. They had the red ring then, just like today. Some of those are worth putting on a converter. EdMika, makes a converter with no glass, that allows the use of the old, manual FD lends on an EOS system and they will get infinity focus. The converters are about $175, so only worth using old, specialty lenses on them. Good luck. ;-)
SS

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Goofy, I think Canon went from FD to EOS in around 1925, you probably remember it well. :lol:
SS

Wellhiem Loc: Sunny England.

Before putting a lens from a DSLR on to a film SLR, make sure it's an EF and not an EF-S lens. Some EF-S lenses will physicaly fit, but may catch the mirror.

roy4711 Loc: Spring Valley IL.

you can buy a lens adapter from vello to mount your FDlenes to your camera. you will have to manually focus.

DaveMM Loc: Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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