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Digital Rebel lens to Film Rebel?
I bought a new Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT and it works great. It came with
an 18 - 55 mm lens. I already had a Canon EOS Rebel film camera with a 35 - 105 mm lens. I swapped the bigger film lens to the digital camera and it seems to work fine, but the new lens won't attach to the old film-camera body. What am I missing? Do I need an adaptor? -- Rick Geyerman cell phone 605.770.8204 Central time |
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Digital Rebel lens to Film Rebel?
Rick Geyerman wrote: I bought a new Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT and it works great. It came with an 18 - 55 mm lens. I already had a Canon EOS Rebel film camera with a 35 - 105 mm lens. I swapped the bigger film lens to the digital camera and it seems to work fine, but the new lens won't attach to the old film-camera body. What am I missing? Do I need an adaptor? The 18-55 lens will not work on either film cameras or full frame digitals. Scott |
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Digital Rebel lens to Film Rebel?
"Rick Geyerman" writes:
I swapped the bigger film lens to the digital camera and it seems to work fine, but the new lens won't attach to the old film-camera body. What am I missing? Do I need an adaptor? The EF-S lens is designed for the Rebel digital cameras and won't work on the film models. The Rebel digital sensor is smaller than a film frame, and that allows the EF-S lens to be smaller and less expensive. But that also makes it inherently incapable of covering a film frame or a larger sensor (like the EOS-1DS series). So there is no adapter. |
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Digital Rebel lens to Film Rebel?
"Rick Geyerman" wrote in message ... Got it. The reason is it is an "EF-S" lens, and not EF |
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Digital Rebel lens to Film Rebel?
OK. Next question, if that's OK...
I've read (here) about dust contamination on a digital camera's CMOS sensors. Is it a big issue to swap these lenses back and forth in a relatively quiet space? Or, are we talking *surgically clean. My pictures are mostly for home use, but I've published magazine photos and that was the purpose of my new purchase. -- "Paul Rubin" wrote in message ... "Rick Geyerman" writes: I swapped the bigger film lens to the digital camera and it seems to work fine, but the new lens won't attach to the old film-camera body. What am I missing? Do I need an adaptor? The EF-S lens is designed for the Rebel digital cameras and won't work on the film models. The Rebel digital sensor is smaller than a film frame, and that allows the EF-S lens to be smaller and less expensive. But that also makes it inherently incapable of covering a film frame or a larger sensor (like the EOS-1DS series). So there is no adapter. |
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Digital Rebel lens to Film Rebel?
Rick Geyerman wrote: OK. Next question, if that's OK... I've read (here) about dust contamination on a digital camera's CMOS sensors. Is it a big issue to swap these lenses back and forth in a relatively quiet space? Or, are we talking *surgically clean. My pictures are mostly for home use, but I've published magazine photos and that was the purpose of my new purchase. Dust is mostly an over rated problem, I rarely even think about it. I am swaping lenses all the time and have very little trouble. Pretty much the only problems you will run into is higher f numbers, like f/16 and even then it is normally not a big problem. And cleaning the sensor is not all that hard either. Scott |
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Digital Rebel lens to Film Rebel?
Thanks again, Scott.
"Scott W" wrote in message oups.com... Rick Geyerman wrote: OK. Next question, if that's OK... I've read (here) about dust contamination on a digital camera's CMOS sensors. Is it a big issue to swap these lenses back and forth in a relatively quiet space? Or, are we talking *surgically clean. My pictures are mostly for home use, but I've published magazine photos and that was the purpose of my new purchase. Dust is mostly an over rated problem, I rarely even think about it. I am swaping lenses all the time and have very little trouble. Pretty much the only problems you will run into is higher f numbers, like f/16 and even then it is normally not a big problem. And cleaning the sensor is not all that hard either. Scott |
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