Fotodiox Lens Mount Adapter - Compatible with Canon FD & FL 35mm SLR Lenses to Sony Alpha E-Mount Mirrorless Cameras

I bought 3 different adapters for canon FD-NEX. The ones I tested were the Fotodiox, the Neewer, and the Fogta. First, I shall reiterate what others have said, that these are manual focus and aperture adapters, and they do not use lens elements that reduce image quality. You set your NEX to allow lens release, and it has no communication with the lens. You do it all by hand, just like in the olden days, which is why I love using these so much!The Fotodiox was the most expensive, and, after some consideration, the best. At first, I did not like the fact that the Fotodiox is set a little past infinity. The fact is that I rarely focus straight to infinity on the lenses I am using--I am doing macro, portrait, and long telephoto lenses with these adapters, it's more likely to be a wide angle landscape lens that you send straight to infinity when you shoot, and I have that in my NEX kit lens (which strangely seems to lack a specific infinity point, but that's another story). I also now appreciate that this extra sliver of focus makes sure that you should be able to safely hit infinity on every lens, which was a concern with the other adapters. What I like most about the Fotodiox adapter is that it really fits the camera and lenses snugly with no play, unlike the cheaper adapters. So I tend to use this adapter on my long telephoto to make sure that it's extra secure. I'm buying one more adapter, and this will be the one, despite that it costs twice what the others cost.The cheaper Neewer and Fogta appear to be set at infinity, but each of them has a little bit of play in the mount--they're not completely snug. I later noticed that the Neewer sometimes seemed to hit infinity just right, and then sometimes, it couldn't reach infinity! Huh? It may have been temperature induced (had trouble hitting infinity in hotter weather), but I think it's more because of the play in the mount. Hitting infinity focus requires very tight tolerances. Since the adapter is a little loose, if it's not in complete contact with the camera, it will never reach infinity. I had to wiggle the lens and adapter while pulling it tight against my camera, and then it popped back to infinity. So it's a cheap mount, what do you expect? I'd rather have an adapter that's just a hair shorter, having that safety factor of going slightly beyond infinity. The apeture lock on the Neewer adapter is very smooth and buttery, so I appreciate that. I have not experienced the problem of not reaching infinity on the Fogta adapter; it does seem to be set on infinity, but knowing what a small tolerance that is, It wouldn't surprise me if there's a chance it might not always hit it on certain lenses since there's no room for error. My only complaint about the Fogta adapter is that the aperture lock ring is loose feeling. It's a little harder to snap into place, and then it kind of wiggles after you set it. I don't think that actually matters for its function, but it makes it feel cheaper. Also, the Fotodiox and Neewer shipped very quickly, and the Fogta took a few weeks to ship from China. I use the Fogta and Neewer adapters on my portrait and macro lenses, where I rarely need to think about infinity, and a little wiggle in the mount doesn't bother these smaller lenses.

I bought this adapter because I needed more versatility out of my Alpha Nex 5, as I only had the 16mm lens. I didn't want to drop $300 for the 18-55 lens, especially with the amount of barrel distortion it has. So with already having a couple FD lenses, I was keen on buying this adapter. I must say, it was an excellent purchase! I was warned that it might degrade image quality if I use a mount, but my pictures look better than ever. This is everything you could ever want out of a mount, it's small, allows for breach and bayonet mounting (I have both, and have tested both to work incredibly), and even aperture control (make sure to mount the lens correctly though otherwise you will not have this feature)! This adapter specifically is incredible because of the price you can get FD lenses. I have a Vivitar 28-200 macro, a Vivitar 500mm Mirror lens, a Canon 50mm prime, and a Canon 70-150mm zoom lens (picked them up for about a total of $45, look around Goodwill and garage sales for incredible deals on these lenses). The types of pictures I can now take are incredibly diverse, and all at the cost of $95. Definitely beats buying the Sony E mount lenses, especially in image quality. Before you could tell that this was not a DSLR camera, but now my pictures look incredible, and have no loss of detail even while zooming in fully.However there are two things to note when you use this adapter. You have to use manual focus, and the weight of the lenses makes some shooting difficult without a tripod. The manual focus for these works great (even better than with the E mount lenses as they don't rotate forever), and the shoot tips button becomes a MF assist, allowing you to zoom in 7 or 14 times to check your focus. The infinity is slightly off on my canon lenses, and I have to twist it a little shy of infinity in order to focus correctly, but not a huge issue. Just learn how your lens works with the camera, it might be different but certainly didn't lose any of its quality or features. The second part is a much bigger problem with these, as you will be using much larger lenses on the camera, making the weight balance be entirely in the lens. With my prime lens it's not a problem, but with my telephoto I have to keep the shutter at least on 1/150 in order to not get blurry pictures. The E mount lenses have built in image stability, which is not present here. For photos this isn't particularly difficult to work around, but for videos they get extremely shaky. Definitely use a tripod to film video with this, but the video will look incredible if you do.The only other complaint is that the tripod mount is attached by TINY screws, I haven't found a screwdriver to take it off yet, but not a huge inconvenience.Simply put, if you have a couple FD lenses lying around, there's no reason you should not get this adapter. For a fairly cheap price, you'll turn have professional shooting capabilities, and this is definitely the cheapest way to get a diverse set of lenses under your belt.

This was bought to allow me to experiment with Canon FD lenses on my Sony a6000. The mount fits both camera and lenses very accurately and smoothly. Highly recommended!Incidentally, using these lenses has been really interesting. Obviously there is no electrical connection between camera and lens, so that aperture and focus need to be set manually. Focus peaking helps with the latter and it's hardly a chore anyway. Viewed on 13.5" retina computer screen my impression is that the legacy lenses are noticeably sharper than the 16-50 kit lens that came with the camera. Whether they are better than Sony high-end lenses I have no idea; but I have them and they work! I have a 50mm (35mm film value) macro lens that allows sharp focus on the stamen of a crocus while throwing out of focus the petals in the foreground and background! Amazing!

Great adapter, fits old FD lenses to Sony A7 cameras very well. There is no undue over-tightness or even lose, just perfect.There is a sliding switch 'open-lock' as you can see. Make sure you put that as open when you fit the lens.After the lens is fitted, then turn to lock to be able to adjust the aperture on the lens. Otherwise the aperture will be open permanently and will be at the brightest setting.I have used an adapter from some other brand before for a different lens mount and that was too tight compared to this one.

This adapter fits my nex5n and canon fd 70-210 f4 perfectly. There's a little play, but that is due to the aperture adjustment mechanism on the lens itself.Construction is excellent, and it came to the UK in under a week!My ONLY gripe is that one of the pictures shows a tripod mount footplate on the adapter, but there is no such mount on my adapter. As my lens is quite heavy, I am reluctant to tripod mount this arrangement and I fear for the integrity of the 5n's lens mount. I will be contacting Fotodiox about this.If you only want to handhold your fd lenses, or only have smaller, lighter focal lengths, then I can't recommend this adapter enough!

Purchased this FotoDiox Adapter to allow me to mount a Canon FD 70-219mm Zoom to my Sony Alpha 7R. Works really well and good value for money. My only observation is that I would be careful about mounting any high mass Zoom lens using this adapter without a Tripod Mount as it is made of plastic on the camera mount side and must be vulnerable to snapping under extreme strain

Still going strong and my 50mm f.1.4 fd lens is my fav lens to shoot with on my A7rii