Canon 50mm FD 1.4 lens on 60D and GH2

[Noah Kadner]

DOF would be identical on either camera. Not sure what you mean about the macro only. If it’s an older mechanical lens it will work equally on either camera as long as you have the right mount adapter.

Noah

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[Phil Balsdon]

The FD – EOS adaptor needs an optical element.

This probably why you can only get restricted focus with a mechanical only adaptor.

I seem to remember reading somewhere the results weren’t perfect and images were a little soft.

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[Albert Solan]

Hello,
this thread might be of your interest:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/280/5521

[Clyde Villegas]

I’ve read somewhere that since the Canon has a bigger sensor, the DOF will be shallower.

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[Clyde Villegas]

How about if I mount the canon 50mm fd lens on the GH2, can I get by with the mechanical only adapter (without the optical element) and still be able to focus to infinity?

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[Clyde Villegas]

Thanks for the link, Albert. Do you know of a similar thread for the GH2 with FD lens?

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[Clyde Villegas]

According to Wikipedia as it talks about the GH2, “The format, with its crop factor of two, is capable of shallow-focus effects (desirable for the ‘filmic’ look where backgrounds are deliberately made out-of-focus with good bokeh, but compared to a ‘full-format’ camera such as the EOS5D it requires lenses with twice the aperture (half the f-number) for the same depth of focus.”

The link is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_Lumix_DMC-GH2

So if this is the case, then the 60D with it’s larger sensor will have a shallower depth of field than the GH2 given the same lens. However, it looks like the FD lens will lose quality with when used with an adapter (with optical element inside). What do you guys think?

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[Phil Balsdon]

Canon FD lenses

Avoid the Canon FD lenses. You need an adaptor with glass in it to make it work with the EOS cameras and they simply do not work well. Soft am afraid! A real shame as there are lots of affordable FD lenses out there…

From this page

https://philipbloom.net/2010/08/20/which-lenses-to-buy/

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[Clyde Villegas]

How about the performance of the FD lenses on the GH2, instead of the EOS cameras. Are they sharp on the GH2?

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[Ryan Orr]

You must understand. With a mechanical only adapter, you are sacrificing infinite focus. You may be getting ‘softness’ and ‘lack of infinite focus’ confused and using the two terms for what you think is the same thing.

To get that infinite focus back, you’ll need an adapter WITH the corrective glass built into it.

FD glass is great, and you can find some awesome deals out there. However, they won’t be tack sharp as the newer lenses, and you will always have to work with the limitations of the adapters. It won’t matter which camera you are using. Both the 60d and GH2 are supreme cameras with nice video options, with nearly identical features and settings.

Either camera will not get you better performances from the lens…it’s the lens that will get you the better performance.