Well when I was at the local camera store to buy a brand new EOS 40D earlier today I saw them selling quite a lot of old film cameras, mostly Canon and Pentax with some really old looking lenses and the guy at the store told me that most of those lenses do not have EF mount so they won't work with Canon digital slrs but I did see a Canon EOS IX Lite film camera with EF 22-55 USM lens and I was sooooooo tempted to buy it because it only cost 75 dollars lol. I didn't buy it because it's an APS camera and I was not sure if there is crop factor on film APS cameras. Maybe some of you guys can recommend a good film camera that can use EF lenses and use regular 35mm film. I am not sure if I want to buy other brands because I don't want to buy new lenses or have lenses that I can't use on my DSLR too

Really old canon film cameras have fd mount, but all eos cameras have ef mount. Full frame camera means that the sensos is same sized as 35mm film, so none of the film cameras work with ef-s lenses, those are made for 1.6 crop dslrs. You should get some old eos film camera for about that price. Iv seen eos 300 cameras with kit lens(28-85mm) sold for around 80-100€, i payed 90€ for mine with a bag, but that kit lens is total crap, so you might want some better lens with it, like 50mm 1.8 that is a great focal lenght for a film camera

Well I know about the fd mount and FOV crop and fullframe thingy but I was wondering if there is fov crop on APS film cameras as well and if there are other Canon film cameras than the EOS family that use EF mount like Canon AE-1 or whatever. hmm I am not sure if I want to buy a 50mm prime though course if I am going to buy a lens it's going to be used on my 40D too and 50mm is too much on a crop body so maybe I should look at EF 35mm f/2.0 or EF 24mm f/2.8 or something like those

The AE-1 do not use EF. But FD.

I have an AE-1.

So you have officially bought a new 40D today?

If so please post some pix!

Sure he will. He has already promised that in an other topic.

omg lol are you guys blind or something
I posted a few pics last night in this thread:

http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=26334077&f=265&st=40

and yes I bought my replacement 40D yesterday and I am going to go out again later this afternoon and take some photos


lmao I know what I have promised but you probably have to wait a few days for a portrait of me


So! I guess nobody knows if APS film camera got field of view crop too???????????????????

This post was edited by Futurama on Jan 6 2009 02:40pm

aps film cameras suck... also the film is hard to find...

oh! lol thanks! Then I am glad that I didn't buy that EOS APS film camera

Have you used a film camera before? If you have, is there any cameras that you would recommend?

This post was edited by Futurama on Jan 6 2009 04:06pm

I just bought a battery and ISO 400 BW film today to my AE-1!
I will post some pictures later. Maybe this will help you getting the right canera.