I need to buy the original Canon Lens Mount Converter FD-EOS, not the Macro Converter. Can someone please tell me where to buy this rare Canon accessorie. Sincerely LB Olsson lbolsson@telia.com

-- LB Olsson (lbolsson@telia.com), April 01, 2002

Answers

http://www.camerawest.com. But from my experience it doesn't work very well. It has optics in it which work as a pretty poor 1.2X teleconverter.

-- Peter Hughes (ravenart@pacbell.net), April 01, 2002.

Peter is correct, you will also loose metering functions as well as optical quality since there is glass in the converter. The incovience of changing lenses will also be a fustration for you. save your money.

-- joe cap (joemocap@yahoo.com), April 01, 2002.

This FD-EOS converter was never sold through normal channels. Canon only supplied it to professionals (CPS members) in the past. So it will be hard to find indeed. One shop that has a few of them in stock is Isarfoto in Germany. I believe they cost around $250. They do ship all over the world and are very reliable. Web address: www.isarfoto.de

The converter is a 1.26x converter and can only be used with a few of the FD lenses. Some information on which lenses etc can be found on my website: http://www.wildpicture.com/pages/photography/fdsystem/fdeos.htm

I do have one and have used it a few times. I would say that its optical performance can be compared to the FD 1.4xA converter. There are some imitations on the market from other brands, but these are pretty bad.

Regards, Hans

-- Hans Martens (hans.martens@wildpicture.com), April 08, 2002.