I\'ve owned three genuine 1.26x FD Eos adapters. The 1,979th made, the 2,525th made and last was the 212th made. As the price increased I sold mine, bought another when luck happened, then sold it, and then sold off my last one about a year ago. Its rare when they trade hands for less than $1,000 thesedays. At $1,000 I am hard pressed to keep any of them. 1.26x sold new for $250 to CPS members. I got my last one for free, as it was attached to the 300mm f4L lens\' images I bought off e-bay for $350 Buy It Now.
Now that 3rd 1.26x is gone too.
I buy & keep mint condition geniune FD Eos Macro adapters when price luck happens, I still own two now, & sold old off 5 used ones. New they sold for $69 and were available thru regular Canon dealers, not a CPS only item. Thesedays they can bring up to $350 though one has sat on E-bay for a couple months at $350 so maybe $350 is too much ?
The hoard of 1.26x that US Gov\'t bought some 20 years ago has not hit the market, at least not that I\'ve noticed as I still track 1.26x serial numbers & build date codes when possible.
I agree, your solution is better than genuine 1.26x for the supertelephoto glass that you can achieve infinity focus with. The other solution is adapting FD glass to m4/3 cameras. I\'ve not done this, though I tried a GH-1 and due to loose lugs I returned it, Loose GH-1 strap lugs are a well known supposedly fixed problem that I found still existed late in GH-1 production run. If lugs detach, it totals the camera due to ridiculous cost to repair, so I\'ve read. GH-2 is on my short list, but so are other things including non existent items like 5D Mark III & whatever the new D700 will be called. D700x, D800...
Ed Mika wrote:
My. Lindy, did you ever find that 1991 buyer of the first 1600 FD-EF genuine 1.26x Canon adapters? Hope they weren\'t holding out for the market value to increase beyond the extreme that it did because the EdMika EF-FD 0.75mm adapter outperforms the Canon one on the 500 mirror, 600 4.5 and 800 5.6 since it also gives infinity focus but without the light loss or distortion of the additional optics.
I\'ve owned three genuine 1.26x FD Eos adapters. The 1,979th made, the 2,525th made and last was the 212th made. As the price increased I sold mine, bought another when luck happened, then sold it, and then sold off my last one about a year ago. Its rare when they trade hands for less than $1,000 thesedays. At $1,000 I am hard pressed to keep any of them. 1.26x sold new for $250 to CPS members. I got my last one for free, as it was attached to the 300mm f4L lens\' images I bought off e-bay for $350 Buy It Now.
Now that 3rd 1.26x is gone too.
I buy & keep mint condition geniune FD Eos Macro adapters when price luck happens, I still own two now, & sold old off 5 used ones. New they sold for $69 and were available thru regular Canon dealers, not a CPS only item. Thesedays they can bring up to $350 though one has sat on E-bay for a couple months at $350 so maybe $350 is too much ?
The hoard of 1.26x that US Gov\'t bought some 20 years ago has not hit the market, at least not that I\'ve noticed as I still track 1.26x serial numbers & build date codes when possible.
I agree, your solution is better than genuine 1.26x for the supertelephoto glass that you can achieve infinity focus with. The other solution is adapting FD glass to m4/3 cameras. I\'ve not done this, though I tried a GH-1 and due to loose lugs I retuerned it, Loose GH-1 strap lugs are a well known supposedly fixed problem that I found still existed.
Ed Mika wrote:
My. Lindy, did you ever find that 1991 buyer of the first 1600 FD-EF genuine 1.26x Canon adapters? Hope they weren\'t holding out for the market value to increase beyond the extreme that it did because the EdMika EF-FD 0.75mm adapter outperforms the Canon one on the 500 mirror, 600 4.5 and 800 5.6 since it also gives infinity focus but without the light loss or distortion of the additional optics.
I\'ve owned three genuine 1.26x FD Eos adapters. The 1,979th made, the 2,525th made and last was the 212th made. As the price increased I sold mine, bought another when luck happened, then sold it, and then sold off my last one about a year ago. Its rare when they trade hands for less than $1,000 thesedays. At $1,000 I am hard pressed to keep any of them. 1.26x sold new for $250 to CPS members. I got my last one for free, as it was attached to the 300mm f4L lens\' images I bought off e-bay for $350 Buy It Now.
Now that 3rd 1.26x is gone too.
I buy & keep mint condition geniune FD Eos Macro adapters when price luck happens, I still own two now, & sold old off 5 used ones. New they sold for $69 and were available thru regular Canon dealers, not a CPS only item. Thesedays they can bring up to $350 though one has sat on E-bay for a couple months at $350 so maybe $350 is too much ?
The hoard of 1.26x that US Gov\'t bought some 20 years ago has not hit the market, at least not that I\'ve noticed as I still track 1.26x serial numbers & build date codes when possible.
I agree, your solution is better than genuine 1.26x for the supertelephoto glass that you can achieve infinity focus with.
Ed Mika wrote:
My. Lindy, did you ever find that 1991 buyer of the first 1600 FD-EF genuine 1.26x Canon adapters? Hope they weren\'t holding out for the market value to increase beyond the extreme that it did because the EdMika EF-FD 0.75mm adapter outperforms the Canon one on the 500 mirror, 600 4.5 and 800 5.6 since it also gives infinity focus but without the light loss or distortion of the additional optics.
Aug 01, 2011 at 07:13 AM
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