SL1 and my old Canon Lenses

MikeM58 wrote:

Newbie... so not sure if this is the right forum, if not, let me know and I'll move it to the correct one.

My question is simple: I have a collection of Canon lenses, from my film days and was wondering if there's an adapter that I can get so that I can use these lenses on my SL1?

Thanks

No well not in any meaningful full way  the adoptor has to have an optic which is not very good

i have quite a fetish for MF glass and use a 50mm f1.4 FDn  and others regularly

now trying to focus MF glass through the poky SL1/100D viewfinder is a challenge

its best to use the live view as with canon a dab and swipe  or 2 will have you zoomed in 5 or 10X anywhere on the back screen forgoodt focusing  .. which is not much good to you if you can't fit the lenses

But all canons with a touch interface are like this which means the canon M mk1 MILC (or any other M body} which will fit any MF lens as adaptors are made for about every mount and is very cheap ..the big problem with the M was VERY slow AF but that don't matter to you

i dont know what your budget is or how many FD lenses you have but a better option that gives you an EVF and focus peaking to help with focus when using an VF is the old Sony full-frame A7..again one of the main problems with the A7 was poor AF

so its just an option for you to think about

be warned the MF lens bug can be pretty contagious and you may end up with more MF lenses than AF lenses