Canon FD Lens Manual

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CONTENTS
Step into a Wonderful World .................................................... 1
Lens Basics ............................................................................. 7
The Interchangeable Lens ....................................................... 8
Angle of View......................................................................... 10
Perspective............................................................................ 11
Depth of Field ........................................................................ 12
Aperture Ratio........................................................................ 14
Lens Buying Seminar............................................................. 15
The Basic Lens System ......................................................... 16
Selecting the Right Lenses for You ........................................ 18
Performance Check 1 ............................................................ 20
Performance Check 2 ............................................................ 21
Performance Check 3 ............................................................ 22
Performance Check 4 ............................................................ 23
The Professional Choice ........................................................ 24
Lens Workshop...................................................................... 25
Snapshot Zoom ..................................................................... 26
Travel Zoom........................................................................... 28
Portrait Zoom ......................................................................... 30
Sports Zoom .......................................................................... 32
Wide Shots ............................................................................ 34
Telephoto Shots..................................................................... 36
Macro Shots........................................................................... 38
Accessories Guide I & II......................................................... 40
Specifications......................................................................... 44
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Tight framing and the bright
colors provide a symmetry of
balance to this beach scene.
Choice of a wide aperture and
the telephoto's shallow depth of
field throw the white-capped
waves in the background out of
focus to emphasize the subject.
FD75— 200mm f/4.5, 1/250 sec. at f/5.6 IS064
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Suspended in space and time, this modern-day FD85-300mm f/4.5, 1/500 sec. at 1/5.6, IS0 64
Icarus obviously has no qualms about flying too
close to the sun. The bright sunshine glistening on
the wings and pilot's helmet highlights detail and
allows a fast shutter speed to be used. The scene
is perfectly framed with the zoom lens at its
300mm setting.
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Two little girls in a park. Completely absorbed in FD35mm f/2, 1/125 sec. at f/8, IS064
their play, they are unaware that their picture is
being taken. Children are full of energy, never stay-
ing for more than a moment in one place. Knowing
this, the photographer used a medium wide angle
lens, stopped down for greater depth of field.
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The audience goes wild as the drum solo reaches FD200mm f/2.8, 1/500 sec. at f/2.8,
its climax. Shooting from the foot of the stage, the ISO 200 pushed to El 400
photographer uses a 200mm lens to bring the spot-
lit drummer right in close. He keeps his elbows
pressed tightly to his body to minimize camera
movement.
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Photography can help us unravel life's mysteries.
This cicada emerging from its cocoon will live only
10 brief days before dying. A half life size shot,
taken at a distance of 45mm with a 100mm macro
lens and Macrolite ML-1 flash. Single-head
illumination from the left.
FD100mm f/4 Macro, 1/60 sec. at 1/16, ISO 64
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One of the greatest features of SLR cameras is their ability to accept a variety of interchangeable lenses.
The minute you mount a wide-angle lens onto your camera, you'll see the world from a broader perspective. And when you replace
your standard lens with a telephoto, the faraway comes in close, filling the frame beautifully. With different lenses to work with,
you'll be amazed at how much more you can express with your camera. But first, take some time to learn the basics behind lenses.
Lens Basics
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Nearing Human vision or surpassing it: the interchangeable lens.
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The human eye is the all-
purpose lens:
it focuses precisely on whatever it
chooses. Interchangeable lenses make
it possible for the photographer to
come close to duplicating — even sur-
passing — this cap
ability. That's why
Canon provides almost 60 different
inter-
changeable lenses for just as
many different applications. Standard
lenses give a natural-looking pers-
pective which closely approximates
human vision. These have large aper-
tures, which make pho
tography in
dimly lit rooms as well as low-
light
outdoor scenes possible. But for the
really exceptional shot —
asoaring
bird, or the minute details of an insect's
wing
—
standard lenses won't suffice.
Distant subjects require telephoto
lenses, whereas su
bjects almost too
small to see call for macro lenses.
When a broad field of view is the
target, wide-
angle lenses accomplish
the task. Near or far, great or small,
different lenses are needed for
attention-getting pictures.
Zoom Lenses
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