Canon Bellow FL or Canon Auto Bellow

[crosstrack20287]

Hello,

Im a photography major at my school and for one of your projects we get to pick what we want to photography and explore. I had the idea of using a bellows and my camera. This is where i am running into some issues. I know that you can use your EOS EF body with your FD lens. What i am looking to do is use my AE-1/AE-1P and a bellows with lens with them. So, my question is, would this work: AE-1/AE-1P with Canon Bellows FL then my FD lens (starting from the camera body to the lens)? I am in a bit of a time crunch because school is about to end for the year. Any help would be great!

Thanks,

Jim

 

[meland]

Hello,

Im a photography major at my school and for one of your projects we get to pick what we want to photography and explore. I had the idea of using a bellows and my camera. This is where i am running into some issues. I know that you can use your EOS EF body with your FD lens. What i am looking to do is use my AE-1/AE-1P and a bellows with lens with them. So, my question is, would this work: AE-1/AE-1P with Canon Bellows FL then my FD lens (starting from the camera body to the lens)? I am in a bit of a time crunch because school is about to end for the year. Any help would be great!

I'm a bit confused by your question.

EF lenses fit EOS bodies. FD lenses don't fit EOS bodies but they do fit your AE-1 and AE-1P.

FL bellows are also designed to work with your AE-1 and AE-1P together with FD (or FL) lenses so your proposed combination will work as the manufacturer intended.

Does that answer your question?

Of course which FD you plan to use will have an impact on magnification and optical quality but that is another subject.

 

[Gautam Majumdar]

FL bellows were usually manual, i.e., you have to manually stop down the lens. With Auto-bellows you can focus at full aperture and the lens will close down as you press the shutter. Your AE-1/AE-1P would take auto-bellows and an FD lens.

I am not sure why you mentioned EOS at all though

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Gautam

 

[RS_RS]

The Canon FL bellows were not manual. They were a beautifully engineered monorail unit with a tripod block running on the bottom of the monorail and front and rear standards running on the top, so you could move body, lens, or entire assembly on the geared racks. There was a rocker harness running the length of the monorail and pivoted at each end, and this engaged with the front and rear standards to transmit the motion of the stop-down lever from the camera body to the lens. There was also a slide-copier unit that fitted onto the front of the monorail. The later Auto Bellows was much more conventional, using a double cable release to provide auto diaphragm operation.

 

[crosstrack20287]

Thanks for all your help. It's coming in the mail on monday and hopefully the weather gets better so i can go out and use it.

 

[VisualNectarPhotography]

If you need to mount an FD or FL on your APS-C or FF DSLR

http://www.canonrumors.com/tech-articles/fd-fl-lenses-on-your-ef-body/
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Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

 

[photonius]

If you need to mount an FD or FL on your APS-C or FF DSLR

http://www.canonrumors.com/tech-articles/fd-fl-lenses-on-your-ef-body/
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Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

for macro work (bellows = extension tubes) with no need for infinity focus, just get a very cheap FD to EOS macro adapter (glassless, with larger open inner diameter) from ebay, no need for the special ed mika adapter, which is excellent for long teles and infinity focus.

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[photonius]

Thanks for all your help. It's coming in the mail on monday and hopefully the weather gets better so i can go out and use it.

to be honest, it's hard to work with this. I have an FD auto bellows and my old attempts shooting with an A1 and film was tough, at high magnifications you have a dark viewfinder (with an f4 100mm macro lens), which caused the focusing prism to be unusably dark, and focusing was by moving the whole rack system back and forth on a tripod, difficult to catch even simple things like a bee.

Anyway, I do not know what you attempt to do, but if you have a digital EOS Canon or other dSLR camera, try to get a cheap FD to EOS macro (glassless) adapter on ebay. You may then get life view with your digital camera which helps in focusing, and you can take many test shots and see how things work out with immediate feedback.

You may also want to use flash to capture motion and stop down more if light is limiting. Most things you can do with film (multiple exposure, solarization, other effects when processing films) you can do with software on a computer, so you don't need film really - ok, it can be fun to develop your own film.

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Life is short, time to zoom in ©