Canon Lenses - Digital/Film

I am about to purchase a Canon Digital Rebel XTi for my business, and
part of the decision depends upon my ability to use the Canon EF "L"
series lenses that I already have from my EOS film camera.

While shopping on Amazon, I saw references to to lenses being "for
Canon SLR cameras" or "for Canon DSLR cameras." What exactly is this
saying? Are lenses for Canon EOS film SLR cameras able to be used with
the DSLR's, or not?

Thanks,

Gregory

Gregory Bruno wrote:
I am about to purchase a Canon Digital Rebel XTi for my business, and
part of the decision depends upon my ability to use the Canon EF "L"
series lenses that I already have from my EOS film camera.

While shopping on Amazon, I saw references to to lenses being "for
Canon SLR cameras" or "for Canon DSLR cameras." What exactly is this
saying? Are lenses for Canon EOS film SLR cameras able to be used with
the DSLR's, or not?

All EOS lenses can be used on all Canon DSLRs; you are good to go.

[The lenses with the designation "S" in them can be used only on the
Rebel series, the 20D, and perhaps the 10D.]

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John McWilliams

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:42:51 -0500, Gregory Bruno wrote:

I am about to purchase a Canon Digital Rebel XTi for my business, and
part of the decision depends upon my ability to use the Canon EF "L"
series lenses that I already have from my EOS film camera.

While shopping on Amazon, I saw references to to lenses being "for
Canon SLR cameras" or "for Canon DSLR cameras." What exactly is this
saying? Are lenses for Canon EOS film SLR cameras able to be used with
the DSLR's, or not?

The EOS lenses for Canon's film cameras work fine on their digitals. The
ones made specifically for APS-C digitals, however, do not for the
most part work on the film cameras or the full-frame digitals.

Thanks,

Gregory

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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:58:12 -0800, John McWilliams
wrote:

Gregory Bruno wrote:
I am about to purchase a Canon Digital Rebel XTi for my business, and
part of the decision depends upon my ability to use the Canon EF "L"
series lenses that I already have from my EOS film camera.

While shopping on Amazon, I saw references to to lenses being "for
Canon SLR cameras" or "for Canon DSLR cameras." What exactly is this
saying? Are lenses for Canon EOS film SLR cameras able to be used with
the DSLR's, or not?

All EOS lenses can be used on all Canon DSLRs; you are good to go.

[The lenses with the designation "S" in them can be used only on the
Rebel series, the 20D, and perhaps the 10D.]

That's what I was hoping to hear. Thanks.

Gregory

Gregory Bruno wrote:
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:58:12 -0800, John McWilliams
wrote:

Gregory Bruno wrote:
I am about to purchase a Canon Digital Rebel XTi for my business, and
part of the decision depends upon my ability to use the Canon EF "L"
series lenses that I already have from my EOS film camera.

While shopping on Amazon, I saw references to to lenses being "for
Canon SLR cameras" or "for Canon DSLR cameras." What exactly is this
saying? Are lenses for Canon EOS film SLR cameras able to be used with
the DSLR's, or not?
All EOS lenses can be used on all Canon DSLRs; you are good to go.

[The lenses with the designation "S" in them can be used only on the
Rebel series, the 20D, and perhaps the 10D.]

That's what I was hoping to hear. Thanks.

You also got a reply in another photo group that Scott wrote.

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john mcwilliams

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:51:15 -0800, John McWilliams
wrote:

You also got a reply in another photo group that Scott wrote.

I saw it. Thanks.

Gregory

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:58:12 -0800, John McWilliams
wrote:
[The lenses with the designation "S" in them can be used only on the
Rebel series, the 20D, and perhaps the 10D.]

No, EF-S Lenses will not work on the EOS 10D.

"BoomBoom" wrote in message
...

No, EF-S Lenses will not work on the EOS 10D.

This is one of the reasons I prefer the Nikon "system", where if you have
one or more different Nikon digital bodies at least they will work with all
Nikon AF lenses. I would not wish to have a collection of lenses only to
find that switching bodies makes some of them unusable. The new D40 is an
exception to this rule as it will not autofocus with many AF lenses, but it
seems this is marketed more at the p&s user rather than serious hobbyists.

Cheers adrian www.boliston.co.uk

Adrian Boliston wrote:
"BoomBoom" wrote in message
...

No, EF-S Lenses will not work on the EOS 10D.

This is one of the reasons I prefer the Nikon "system", where if you have
one or more different Nikon digital bodies at least they will work with all
Nikon AF lenses. I would not wish to have a collection of lenses only to
find that switching bodies makes some of them unusable. The new D40 is an
exception to this rule as it will not autofocus with many AF lenses, but it
seems this is marketed more at the p&s user rather than serious hobbyists.

Except that Canon did it long ago (in digital SLR time!) and now has 5
or so lower end bodies for which this one clearly designated lens series
fits to, how is it different?

--
John McWilliams

"BoomBoom" wrote in message
...

This is one of the reasons I prefer the Nikon "system", where if you
have one or more different Nikon digital bodies at least they will
work with all Nikon AF lenses.

You obviously aren't aware that Nikon have a wide range of variations on
their mount with many lenses only being fully usable on some cameras.

Basically there are 3 different ways of setting the lens aperture, 2
different ways of auto-focusing the lens and lenses that cover full
frame 35mm and others that don't. Low end bodies often only support the
later methods, so earlier lenses won't work as they were originally
intended.

All nominally with the same mount!

The reason the D40 only works with some lenses is that it doesn't have
an in-camera focus motor, so non-HSM lenses can't be auto-focused.

Other low end Nikon bodies didn't support the older ways of reading the
lens aperture setting, so exposure metering didn't work with those
lenses. This has improved a little with bodies like the D200, but still
the only true guarantee that you'll be able to use almost all Nikon
mount lenses as they are meant to be used is to buy an expensive D2h or
D2x body.

Canon OTOH have just EF lenses and EF-S lenses, and they are designed so
you can't mount an EF-S lens on a camera which only takes EF lenses, and
all cameras which take EF-S lenses will also take all EF lenses.

Yes, I know they won't mount older FD lenses without a severely
compromised adaptor, but at least they don't go around claiming that
they have always had the same lens mount while continually adding extra
things to it like Nikon and Pentax.