Canon FD 50-300 f4.5 L

[trifox]

This is a CUSTOMER LENS.

I am finishing with the mount .. but aperture not finished yet.

I must admit - this is a strange lens --

- it's heavy -- I really do not know why Canon produced such a zoom 50-300

I think -- 100-300 is enough - never mind...

1 - sharpness -- superb
2 - bokeh -- hmm _ I do not know - I don't like it too much
3 - colours -- stunning and warm = exactly what I like - it doesn't have to be everyone's taste
+ true apo performance = no fringing or any significant CA even wide open

Colours are simply stunning ..

There is no PP in colours! LightRoom did its jobs and I changed Adobe to CameraFaithful

The lens is quite rare and HEAVY!! It's a proper chunky and heavy stuff, simply pure metal and glass !!!

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[Himself]

Beautiful color rendering! I was looking for one for quite a while but besides the fact that's pretty rare it fetches big prices.
Any photos with the long end? I mean distant subjects.

[Rolf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you show us a pic of the lens ?

[ManualFocus-G]

Great results! Colours are fantastic!

[Orio]

it's very difficult to find a zoom that goes from normal to supertele and has a good bokeh
Simply the quantity of the elements involved and the quite likely retrofocal design are factors
that work against a good bokeh
For the rest I'd say that what I see is surely impressive, although it seems that sometimes (e.g. photo #7)
you have added some saturation, too.

[Katastrofo]

Awesome performance, love them all! You're the main reason why I hold
on to my A-1 and FD glass.

[trifox]

thanks to all for comments.

Himself - I need to dig out something..

Orio = trust me! the saturation is untouched and this is my settings in camera:

Sharpness = 1
Contrast = totally minimized = -0
Saturation = -2
Color tone = 0

and here's the LightRoom window:



and this is the detail -- from the number 6:

[stingOM]

FD L glass are truly stunning

[tobbsman]

STUNNING !

Love the 2nd shot.
And I don't think there's something wrong about the bokeh of this lens

Cheers
Tobias

[Rolf]

Here a link to the Canon Camera museum with a pic and some technical dates about this beast.

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/lens/nfd/data/zoom/nfd_50~300_45l.html

[Tervueren]

Wow

[fuzzywuzzy]

[martinsmith99]

Great samples. Would love one for my T90.

[Schnauzer]

Beautiful all of them. The lense seems like a gem. Your skills aren't bad either.

[Olivier]

Reaaly impressive and wonderfully presented.

[malsano]

Hi, i've just gotten one like new and i'd like to have some information about your conversion.

thank you