Canon EOS 650 + lens compatibility

Hi all

A friend has just let me be custodian of his old Canon EOS 650 film
camera, with Zenitar fisheye lens currently attached. (K2,8/16)

I'm wondering if the lens I have for my EOS 350 (Rebel XT) DSLR will fit
on it - it's a Tamron 28-75 f2.8. (Full name 'Tamron SP AF Aspherical XR
Di LD (IF)' etc)

I've been round the houses googling Canon lens mounts, but my head is
about to explode. I understand that the kit lens that came with the
Rebel won't fit the 650, but the Tamron might?

Am I also right in thinking that the Zenitar won't fit the Rebel?

Thanks for any thoughts. I'd rather read about it first than try it and
bugger something up.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Bella

 

Hi Bella.

My understanbding is that the 350 digital and 650 share the same lens mount
so the lenses should fit both bodies.
There is an exception. Canon EF-S lenses are desinged for Canon digital
bodies with sensors that are smaller than a 35mm frame. These EF-S lenses
will not fit film bodies (such as your 650) or full-frame digital bodies.

There may be room for confusion due to Canon using one mount for their
autofocus lenses and a non-compatible mount for their older manual focus
lenses.

Personally, I use Canon 35mm and APS SLRs and the lenses are completely
compatible with both types of body.


Hope this helps.

Ian.

 

Well, my understanding is that the EF lens mount is a 'standard' thing,
i.e. all EF lenses fit all EOS cameras.
The only exception that I know of are the EF-S lenses, which have the
same bayonet etc. but are only designed to cover the smaller digital
sensor found on the EOS 300D, 350D, 20D, etc.

It looks like the Tamron should be ok. Di indicates that it is designed
for digital cameras, in terms of certain optical criteria, which is a
little vague. However, their site says DiII identifies lenses
specifically designed for smaller digital sensors. Your lenses is not
DiII so you should ok.

 

Both lenses should be fine on both cameras. Your only lens that won't
fit both is the 18-55 kit lens as thats the ES-F lens that protrudes
further inside the body and into the way of the mirror, but the mount
won't physically fit so you couldn't even fit it if you tried [1].

The Tamron Di stands for a digital enhanced coating but should be fine
on the film body. Problems occur when you try using a full on digital
only lens that doesn't cover a full frame 35mm field of view such as
some of the 10-20mm lens etc.

<http://bobatkins.com/photography/reviews/fisheye.html> shows a quick
review of the Zenitar on a 10D body. I think at worst the 350D would
just come up with an error code if it doesn't like the lens which would
go away on removal.

[1] Well you could if you hack sawed part of lens off but then you would
be in trouble.

 

Thanks very much everyone for the replies. I think I know what I'm
doing now. When I get a minute I'll try them all out.

Sodding vile rain today though. Ugh. :-(

Heh. The good news is that the thing caught in my viewfinder has
slipped out of sight, so that's one problem down.

 

Quite, I'm off over snake pass now [1], usually lovely in the sun, but
its raining and today I'm driving a diesel, yuk & yuk. Got the camera
though just in case....

Yay

[1] Well now it's posted it is infact past tense, we had snow, but no
views I could quite angle to make a picture, well not under the time
constraints of having to get to a location in manchester, drop off a
load of display items, set it up, and get out again all in a 2hr
allocated time slot.