Product Details

• Brand: Fotodiox

Features

• All Metal Design
• Built-in 1.4x Multi-Coated Focusing Correction Lens
• Removable Glasss Element for Macro Photography
• Smooth surface for effortless mount
• 24 Month Manufacture Warranty

Product Description

If you have a SLR or DSLR camera and other maker/mount lenses, the Fotodiox Mount Adapters allow you to use your lenses on the film/digital camera body. Sharing lenses has some distinct advantages. Certain prime lens just can't be replaced, and you save cost of purchase lenses. ­Fotodiox offers a range of adapter from large format to smaller format digital adapters. Adapting larger format lens, i.e., large format - medium format, medium format - 35mm, excellent edge-to-edge sharpness; and the smaller 24x36 mm image field helps minimize the effects of lens distortion and aberration.

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Nice accessary
By David G. Miller II
Bought this adapter to use Canon lenses on my Nikon body. Works great! Don't forget, it will crop the image on a D40 and D3000. Wide angle and fisheye lenses may disappoint you. All other focal length lenses work great with the adapter. For manual mode only. It's a sturdy and solid adapter.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Quality Product, but not what I was hoping for.
By jrlambs
A friend of mine had bought this lens: Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras and raved about how good it was in low light situations, with the cost of depth of field of course. That lens, however is expensive at its retail price and sold out everywhere. About 18 years ago I had inherited my Dad's old camera equipment, much of which he had inherited from HIS father. I noticed that among the equipment were 2 Canon lenses, one of which was a 50 mm 1.4 aperture lens. When I found this adapter I thought Great, I can spend a fraction of the price and get a lens that can help me get great portraits of my daughter in low light (Like my living room).. of course I wasn't expecting it to be as good as the Native 1.8 Nikon lens, and I'd have to do everything Manual, but I'm up for some experimentation.

I got the adapter and was able to connect the lens to the camera no problem. I immediately set the aperture to 1.4 and started snapping pictures and learned that manually trying to focus something at 1.4 was nearly impossible... I think this is partially true with any 1.4 lens, but I think the conversion made it even more difficult to focus. I don't know if this is this product's fault or just an overall downside of the conversion. With the Aperture set to about 2.8 I was able to get things to focus fairly easily. The next thing I noticed however, was really disappointing. The lens doesn't seem to let in nearly as much light as I thought it SHOULD let in. I'm guessing this is a negative side effect of using a canon lens on a Nikon body though and not the fault of this product. Anyway, a photo taken with the same settings and a 5.6 aperture using the stock Nikon 18-55 lens seemed to have more light than my Canon lens set to 2.8.. which basically takes away the entire point of having the adapter, for my purposes anyway.

That being said, I still get all of the depth-of-field advantages, or disadvantages depending on how you look at it. At low aperture settings the subject is in focus with the background blurred out exactly as I would expect. In situations with a decent amount of light, or with a flash I get quality, sharp photos using my Canon Lens on my Nikon D40x with this Adapter.

So i can recommend this product, as long as you're not planning on using it to take advantage of a lens for its low-light situation capabilities.

I'm giving the product 3 stars, I considered giving it higher though, because I believe most of the issues I had with it are not the fault of the product itself.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Useful for the Un-useful
By jbamphotandom
This product works, with some things in mind. First off, know what your getting into before you get excited. Its not going to take your fd lens and make it a perfect use lens, you will be "limited" depending on how you look at it. Metering, is not possible (unless you have a nikon that you can manually put the aperture settings in (i have d40 and cannot do so)), second, your lens is going to be alot different than it would be on your 35mm. I know theres a 1.5x difference between the look on your 35mm and digital, but the adapter I think may even make it more. I have tested it with a FD Tamron 28mm lens, a Promaster 100-200mm Macro, and a 100-200mm zoom with 2x teleconverter. The product works as described and as pointed out in the other review, the aperture lock is not self explanatory, but useful once you realize that what to do. I will attempt to post pictures another day. All in all, it took 3 lenses that my grandfather had passed onto me, and allowed me to make the more useful (I dont shoot 35mm often), but like I said, eliminate your expectations and realize that $40 cost, will save you some money instead of buying other lenses, but your old fd lenses, just wont replace a real nikon cpu lens, but you will definitely make it worth your while rather than selling the old fd lenses.

Delivery fast, came as expected, fotodiox is great and will do business with them in the future.