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Archive 2009 · 24L FD mount

  
 
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p.1 #1 · 24L FD mount


Does anyone know what the deal is with this lens? KEH is asking about 500 bucks more than you'd get for a good copy of a EF mount mark I. Adorama has one going for about a grand. Is the lens just so very rare it can demand these prices, or is there some sort of magic in the glass?


Jul 05, 2009 at 11:00 PM
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p.1 #2 · 24L FD mount


I had the FD 24/1.4 SSC Aspherical quite a while ago, back in the film days, and it is nothing special optically but it was certainly a special lens for it's time. I always found it a bit too soft wide open which to my way of thinking is the whole point of this kind of lens anyway. I don't know what changes there were between the FD(n) 24 L and the SSC Aspherical, maybe it's the same lens just with Canons new fangled 'L' marketing.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/fdlenses/earlyfdlenses/24mmfd.htm

JJ



Jul 05, 2009 at 11:09 PM
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p.1 #3 · 24L FD mount


Some people collect lenses. That alone can drive up prices. Where you thinking of trying to convert the FD to EF mount?


Jul 06, 2009 at 08:50 AM
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p.1 #4 · 24L FD mount


Dmitry has done one of those converts. His images with it look great. Canīt remember if it requires a shave on 5D or not, probably it does.


Jul 06, 2009 at 10:15 AM
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p.1 #5 · 24L FD mount


Andre is right i did it some time ago http://album.foto.ru:8080/photos/pr1/41852/426975.jpg - can not say would it hit the mirror or not, because mine is shaved already.


Jul 06, 2009 at 10:25 AM
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p.1 #6 · 24L FD mount


JohnJ wrote:
I had the FD 24/1.4 SSC Aspherical quite a while ago, back in the film days, and it is nothing special optically but it was certainly a special lens for it's time. I always found it a bit too soft wide open which to my way of thinking is the whole point of this kind of lens anyway. I don't know what changes there were between the FD(n) 24 L and the SSC Aspherical, maybe it's the same lens just with Canons new fangled 'L' marketing.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/fdlenses/earlyfdlenses/24mmfd.htm

JJ


Interesting. Thanks, JJ.



Jul 06, 2009 at 01:00 PM
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p.1 #7 · 24L FD mount


gasrocks wrote:
Some people collect lenses. That alone can drive up prices. Where you thinking of trying to convert the FD to EF mount?


Nope. I was looking for a 55 f/1.2 SSC or a 50L FD for a friend and I just happened across the two 24s. The prices just struck me as odd.



Jul 06, 2009 at 01:02 PM
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p.1 #8 · 24L FD mount


Dim.ka_ wrote:
Andre is right i did it some time ago http://album.foto.ru:8080/photos/pr1/41852/426975.jpg - can not say would it hit the mirror or not, because mine is shaved already.


Nice, Dimitry.



Jul 06, 2009 at 01:04 PM





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