Lens Review - Canon 600mm f4.5 FD lens
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Here is my review of the Canon 600mm f4.5 FD mount lens. It is an amazing lens that is worth every penny of the investment in it.
The camera the lens is mounted to is a Sony A7iii and the adapter used is a neewer FD to NEX adapter.
This is an excellent review. Thank you
Thank you! 😀
Thank you for making this video. It is quite difficult to find any video content on the awesome old lenses. Hope to see more in the future.
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I have my eye on a few other lenses to check out. I have a ton to pick from already, but I’d love to try the 800mm and 300mm canon FD lenses 😊
@@MiscellaneousMcC I've read that both are quite well. And they are among the lightest manual lenses in that category due to the fluorite elements.
Nextdivine
Lite weight would be nice! The 600 is a beast! Haha
Thank you for the experience you shared.
Thank you for a very interesting review , I have the new FD300mm F2.8 L with the 1.4 x works very well stopped down to F3.5 for astrophotography, as for the 48mm filters they are a standard size for astronomy ( one of the reasons I bought the Canon ) so you could try there for other filters , a Minus Violet filter may help with you CA problem . I'll put the 600mm F4.5 on my wish list. Thanks again
I will look into the Astro filters! Thanks for that info!
I’d like to try out the 300mm. It looks like a nice lens.
I am planning to buy this lens too. I love this lens I check on eBay for about 850USD
Super weird focusing mechanism
Initially I was very skeptical of it, but having used it for a couple years I find it much more intuitive. It's actually way better for pulling focus when shooting video, as I don't have to crank the focus around the barrel. There is also a focus tensioner you can set to dictate how much force is needed to turn the knob. That means I can pull focus without any lens movement which is fantastic.
Hey, nice review of this lens! You should take a look at it's little brother the fd 500mm f4.5 l which have "magic" canon fluorite glass for dealing with chromatic aberration and roughly the same price 😉
But as you say old fd lens are bargain for wildlife photography!
Thank you!
I will have a gander at the 500mm. Several people have mentioned that it is worth taking a look at and it isn't too expensive either. I'd also love to pick up the 800mm to see what it is like as well!
Oh yeah the 800mm f5.6 l must be a pretty special lens to have especially when you take into account the price of it compare to modern one!
I have this lens, and I feel that I still see CA even with the fluorite. :( Still, it can produce fantastic images. Personally, it's still super hard to manual focus super telephoto lenses because the focus plane seems so thin, and birds like to move a lot...
@@benjaminmesa1089 oh that's interresting is it in the focus area or out of focus area ?
@@julien-jd9nz I have seen it in the focus area quit a few times when the subject is brightly BRIGHTLY highlighted and they have a lot of light coloration. I have actually wondered if it is a quirk of my camera too. I am getting a Sony a7R iii and testing it on that to see if the fringing is exactly the same, or what. I haven't heard too many complaints of this from other photographers, so I am wondering...
Nice review! Love the music... Did you stack the astro pics? I'm particularly interested in whether I could improve on the Jupiter photos
Joseph Mancuso Thank you!
I did not stack the pictures of Jupiter. I tried using deepsky stacker but it didn’t have a noticeable improvement. Also these were jpegs out of the camera. I forgot to switch back to RAW shooting. My bad! Haha!
@@MiscellaneousMcC Were they taken with the 2x extender?
@@benjaminmesa1089
The 2x extender turns the planet into little more than a smear of colour. It’s better to take the image without it and enlarge by 2x
Hey do you have somewhere to see the pictures you take with lens? I'm looking to buy it but can't find any picture of it..
Cordially, Julien.
I post most of my decent shots to my Facebook profile: Danial McCoy
It’s an open profile so anyone can see it 😁
@@MiscellaneousMcC hey thanks! I add you in friend
Where did u buy it from ?
I ordered it off eBay.
Can you mount the lens to any canon camera?
You can mount it easily to any canon mirrorless with a cheap adapter. Canon dslr cameras as also possible, but require an adapter that has a glass element in it. They range from inexpensive to quite expensive. The lower quality ones can degrade the image substantially where as the higher end ones use better optics and the reduction in quality is hard to notice.
Go on eBay and look up FD to eos, or FD to canon R mount, based on your cameras mount and see what pops up.
Hai in may channel make video and photos with canon fd 400mm f4 and sony apsc 6300.
Will this fit on a Canon 70D. You stated that it is for old film cameras so not sure if it will work or not?
As far as I'm aware, the flange distance on the older RF canon mounts are much shorter than the newer, EF lenses. So it wouldn't work without modifying the lens considerably.
Hello i have buy that lens for my 5D Mark III (full frame) and i have a big vignetting …
DSLR cameras require a special adapter that has an optical element in it. This lens works fine on mirrorless cameras because the flange distance is much shorter.
if you think the 2x is bad, you'll cry trying the 3x adapter.
But apparently, the 1.4x is okay, the reduction in optical quality is there but negligible.
I want this on my FUJI-APSC, either with the focal reducer and the added benefit of that giving me an extra stop of light or without the focal reducer and this being essentially a 900mm f5.6.
I’ve been looking for the 1.4x but they are not cheap these days. Eventually I want to give it a go for that extra reach.
A 900mm f5.6 would be very nice in the FUJI! 😎
You know what's funny? I have the 500mmFD F4.5 'L', and it still has color fringing like this...
It can be fairly nasty at times!