The Canon FD 2.8/35 is a small and very light lens and it is very well balanced on my Sony Alpha 7. The lens is mostly metal but some parts like the aperture ring at the front plate are made from plastics.
#Canon 35mm 1.8 manual#
Build Qualityīuild quality is good by today’s standards but if you compare it to other manual lenses the lens feels a bit cheap. I use an expensive Novoflex adapter (link to my review) but the cheaper ones usually work well enough. Here are links to adapters to mount the Canon FD 2.8/24 to Sony E mount cameras: | (affiliate links). I usually recommend Sony Alpha 7-series cameras for the use with older manual lenses because they are the only ones with a fullframe sensor and in my experience most lenses work best on the larger sensor. In my eyes there is little reason to use this lens on a APS-C camera, 18-55 Kit lenses will give better results. Mirrorless cameras have a much shorter flange focal distance and you can buy adapters for Fuji-X, Sony-E, Micro Four Thirds and Samsung NX which won’t degrade image quality or lose infinity focus I wouldn’t bother to use one of those adapters. You can use the lens on a wide range of old Canon FD-mount film-cameras like the Canon A1 or AE-1.īecause of the flange-focal-distance of Canon FD lenses all adapters for DSLR cameras either contain an optical element which will reduce image quality a lot or you lose infinity focus.
There are at least three versions of their 2/35 and one 3.5/35 but those are totally different lenses. The new FD 2.8/35 which this review is about and a much bigger and expensive Tilt/Shift lens. In Germany you can buy it for 40-70€ at (affiliate link) VersionsĬanon made only two 2.8/35 lenses with FD mount. The Canon new FD 35mm 1:2.8 usually sells for around $35-60 at (affiliate link). Number of Aperture Blades: 5 (slightly curved).
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