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Canon eos 400d/xti purchase

Started Jun 7, 2017 | Questions thread
Doug Pardee
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Re: Canon eos 400d/xti purchase
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D148xZ wrote:

It arrived today, the flash shows absolutely no signs of life.

What do you mean by "no signs of life"? Does it refuse to pop up, or does it pop up and refuse to flash?

If it refuses to pop up, does nothing at all happen or does it make some clicking noises followed by ERR 05?

If it refuses to pop up and makes no noise, that's an easy fix:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougpardee/133066175/

My grandma gave me three of his old fd lenses, I saw that they were expensive so I thought that I might as well use them.

Canon FD lenses won't fit on an EOS mount. You have to use an adapter. If you use an adapter without glass, you only get close-focus. If you use an adapter with glass, the cheap glass usually wrecks the image quality.

FD lenses work okay on mirrorless cameras with glass-less adapters, but honestly, the state of lens design and manufacture has moved so far ahead over the past 30-40 years that you'd probably do better with some cheap Chinese manual-focus EOS-mount lens.

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