MACRO Question: Eos body and FD lenses ??

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Firstly, i am sorry if this has been asked before but i have used the search function to no avail
I am being a cheapskate here and am looking to getting the fd 100mm f2.8 macro lens to use on my 50D with an adapter.
The questions i have are, does anyone do a similar thing, is it straight forward, is the quality of the old FD anywhere near the newer EF (please don't tease by mentioning the L version) ?
I have a raynox dcr250 but feel that the shots i see with the 100mm EF macro have much better DOF than my raynox shots even when i am using f16-f22. I am not to worried about auto focus as my macro bugs are shot in manual. I would hower need to step the aperture down as 2.8 wouldn't really help.
Other FD lenses would also be on my shopping list if the idea is feasable
Any advice or help would be very much appreciated,
Many thanks
Cliff

 

[s162216]

For macro you'll be fine using FD lenses as you obviously don't need infinity focus which is lost if using an adapter without a corrective element as the flange focal distance is longer than that of the EF mount. However if you do use an adapter to use FD lenses in other situtations with infinity focus that has a corrective element then there will be some drop in quality as well as it acting like a short (~1.2x) teleconverter.

I've never used any FD glass but according to most others it was usually of a very high standard. A lot of people in the film and conventional section own FD cameras and glass so you might want to ask them (don't mention your mounting them on a digital though!)

 

[matt b]

Not sure if i'm aloud to do this but i have a mint canon fd50 3.5 macro for sale.