WTSell: Lens - Canon FD 28mm f2.8 Wide Angle (w/Both Caps & Filter)

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Equipment Type: Lens
Equipment Brand: Canon
Equipment Model: FD 28mm f2.8 Wide Angle (w/Both Caps & Filter)
Price (S$): 290
Description:
Overall Excellent condition high quality original equipment Canon Lens FD 28mm f2.8 Wide Angle w/Both Caps and filter.

Glass has NO SCRATCHES. NO DUST. NO HAZE. NO FUNGUS.

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Real Name: Tomi

Condition of Item (as per guidelines): 10
Warranty Status: 0

 

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Some additional info about this lens... hope it helps!

[[ The Canon FD lens mount is a physical standard for connecting a photographic lens to a single-lens reflex camera body. The standard was developed by Canon of Japan and was introduced in March 1971 with the Canon F-1 camera. It was the primary Canon SLR lens mounting system until 1987 when the cameras from the Canon EOS series were first produced using the new EF lens mount. The last camera in the FD system was the Canon T60, from 1990. The FD mount replaced Canon's earlier FL mount (which in turn had replaced the R mount); FD-mount cameras could use FL lenses in stop-down metering mode. There is no known meaning for 'FD', and Canon has never disclosed what, if anything, it stands for.

The Canon FD system enjoyed huge popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, and Canon FD cameras and lenses are available for low prices on the second-hand market. This makes the system very attractive to 35mm film or DSLR photographers who demand the highest optical quality, but who do not need autofocus capability. ]]

 

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The FD lens mount is a breech-lock mount. The advantage of this type of mount is that the contact surfaces between the body and lens do not rotate against each other when the lens is mounted. This prevents any abrasion, which could conceivably reduce the very precise lens-to-film distance. The disadvantages include slower lens changes; later FD ('New FD') lenses mounted more like bayonet-mount lenses in that the photographer twisted the lens body to mount and unmount, even though the actual mount surfaces remained fixed.[3] Canon chose a bayonet-style mount for its new EOS system's EF lenses.

Like its FL predecessor, the FD mount system allowed automatic aperture function, but in addition, a new indexing pin supported full-aperture metering. Together with a signal pin for the "auto" setting of the aperture dial, this enabled integral auto-exposure. The first camera to utilize this was the Canon F-1, when equipped with the Servo EE Finder, in 1971. Later, the Canon EF from 1973 had automatic exposure built-in, just like the very popular Canon A-series cameras in 1976. The FD mount has no support for the lens-body communication, whether electrical or mechanical, required for autofocus (the AC FD lenses, described below, are an exception), which was a primary reason for its retirement. While Canon could have adapted its mount to support auto-focus, as did other manufacturers, instead the company chose to make a clean break with the past and design a completely new interface with support for electrical signaling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_FD_lens_mount[url]

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_FD_lens_mount