 G Burt |
Need FD Lens Advice Please Please help... we have found a lens that we hope is a wide-angle lens for our daughter's Christmas gift. Is the following from a good wide-angle lens (all the #'s from the end of the thing): PROSPEC Multicoated No. 86702468 1:28 f=28mm 52mm It looks like a nice lens but is it what we hope it is? Thanks for any advice. Don't want to surprise her at Christmas with a "dud"...
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I do not know anything about the brand but I can tell you that it is a wide-angle lens. That is what the 28mm refers to. Wide-angle lenses come in many sizes and types. 28mm is not an extreme wide-angle but it is wider than, say, a 50mm lens. Perhaps look for similar numbers on your daughter's other lens to compare. This number is not to be confused, though, with the 52mm number - that is simply the diameter of the lens. People use this to know which size of filter to buy for a lens. Telling them apart can be tricky but the lenses are generally numbers like 20mm, 24mm, 28mm and the filter sizes are generally 52mm, 58mm, 72mm, etc. The hardest part is knowing if this is the right type of lens. I would be very wary of this as only certain lenses fit certain cameras. Hopefully someone else will be familiar with your particular lens. Perhaps you could post what kind of camera your daughter is using (brand, model #) and what kind of lenses she already uses.
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G Burt |
Thank you so much for responding to our plea for advice! Her camera is a Canon AE-1 and she only has the lens that it came with. (I think it is a 55 or 52 mm ... that is what the manual says is standard). It has something called a bayonet mount and the lenses have to have the letters FD in it somewhere. She has the camera in Georgia, we are in California... and the gift is a surprise (she is an army journalist and wanted an all around good camera, we were told the AE1 was a great first camera). Any advice for her/us is appreciated!
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