I will post some photos when the adapter arrives, but with no glass it should be as good as the old lens always was...
Except of course it will be totally manual

I found it on Ebay!
A glassless adapter to use my old FD lenses on my EF rebel. it is listed as canon fd to ef ultra slim adaptor. it will not focus to infinity ( but with 500MM I rarely do anyway)
with no glass the lens quality should remain the same and there is no loss of an F stop for an extra chunk of glass.
Hoping to get the results I used to get on my AEI with 2X teleconverter and shooting wildlife at 1000MM....
Cost me $50 but pretty cheap if it works - if not? Well I have spent more on less...

beat me to it - darn - myy first thought was spaghetti

I grabbed this the other morning after a heavy frost. It is now my desktop background, the more I see it the more I like it, but I want to learn how to do latering and put a deer or two in the background

frosty pine macro

Well, you can change colour to B&W but you cannot shoot in B&W and change to colour!!

I have not used the Mavica but a very good friend has one and is very happy with it... For $40, I would buy it even just for a backup camera

Good deal at the fish market today??? LOL

a "glassy" marble

OB
Roger that my friend, actually I am playing with using 12VAC on the external relay. Then it should release after 1/60 second which should trigger the shutter and release.
However, I have boxes of parts from back in the days when new stuff had to be built LOL before you could buy anything like it. I will look for a TIP120 and cross ref it. I am fairly sure I had some darlingtons back when.
Thanks AGIN

an eyeball

Thanks OB,
but the problem appears to be that the SCR continues to conduct after the gate trigger voltage is removed. I am trying to use a relay to open the circuit after the shutter is tripped to bring the SCR back to a non-conductive state, in effect resetting it?????

all my AE1 lenses are FD. you need a fd to ef converter

Since getting into digital and learning about post processing I find myself taking more "stock" photos for later use.
This morning we had the first of this year's hoar frost so I ran out into the yard and grabbed these.
I thought some folks in southern areas may have never seen hoar frost. These are beside the house.
Now if I can learn how to do layers and superimpose... And I can't wait until we get heavy frost on the windows, the patterns are like snowflakes - no two are the same.

pine branch


pines spruce and willows


willow leaf

I have a technical problem to overcome.
I built a "Freeze-Frame" circuit that uses either sound or light to trigger a flash. I want to uses it to trigger the shutter on my Canon XSi but the firing pulse seems too short. It will fire a flash but not the camera. It uses an SCR to provide a grounded pulse.
Can anyone tell me how I can make the trigger pulse last longer?
I have a 12V micro relay but have to make it self latching, then how to unlatch the relay after the shot? Perhaps a timing capacitor?
Forty years ago I knew this stuff, now it escapes me.
The "strobe" connector is the trigger output...

freeze frame schematic

toyota isnt that pronounced toy auto?

wisht I had a kamra