nFD / SSC / FD / FL Canon Lens Mounts - What's the Difference? 

The struggle to mount an FL lens is real! Canon addressed this with subtle upgrades to the FD mount, including little spring loaded locks and pins inside the chrome ring, plus an additional spring to “push” the chrome ring to a place where the lens won’t fall off. The New FD lenses solve the mounting problems completely by essentially making the entire outer barrel of the lens do the job of the chrome ring while the rearmost inside of the lens (with all the lens-to-body aperture connections) remains stationary. Sounds complicated, but it works well.

You're showing a slight lack of familiarity with the system. FL's shouldn't be mounted on A series bodies. They press on the aperture indicater linkage. Makes incorrect metering. FD lens are hell for strong mounts. The "new" mount, while ok aren't near as strong. Just saying. Oil on the aperture blades does happen, fortunately it's not difficult to diy. Good shooting my man.

Glad I found this channel/video. I am thinking on getting the FD 50mm f3.5 Macro S.C.C.

Thank you for this. This was super enlightening!

I am struggling between the canon a1 with 50mm f1.4 ssc fd and 28mm f2.8 nfd or leica iic with elmar 50mm f3.5. Great informative and helpful video,thanks you!

I have a 50mm fd f1.4 ssc lens which I've had for 45 or 46 years. I used it a lot on my Canon AE-1 Program film camera for a long time. I recently bought an adapter so I can mount the lens on my new Canon DSLR camera body with a EF lens mount. Of course you have to set the aperature manually and focus manually as well, but it's cool being able to use it on my EOS Rebel T7 camera and I've had no mounting or unmounting issues with it.

Very helpful information. Thank you!

i have a canon A-1, and i found this weird vivatar series 1 70-210 1:3.5 macro focusing lens , but it has a 2x-4 teleconverter on it also, but the tele says "fl-fd" on it and i dunno what adapter to buy to fit that on my new dslr (ef)

I believe the SSC designation stands for the multi coating on the lens.

Was there a middle one between the scc and the NFd? I have an fd 50mm 1.4 that has the orange numbers and silver backing but it doesn't say scc on it at all. Just says FD.

I prefer the build quality of the FD lenses but the simplicity of the nFD bayonet mount. Been shooting Canon since the 70's...when I'm not shooting film, thankfully the Sony A7R series allows me to shoot my vintage glass with a simple adapter...shame Canon didn't address that issue when they came out with the EF lenses. And with Sony's in-body stabilization, the each vintage lens is now 'stabilized'. I don't know about your conclusion of the FD SSC lenses, particularly the 50/1.4...I bought mine along with an AE-1 body back in the late 70's...the 50/1.4 SSC still performs well, even on my Sony A7R2's 40+ megapixel sensor (and still no signs of any oil). All of my lenses are stored in Pelican cases, so maybe that helps.

My ssc lens aperture is not activated. Anyone please help. It npt activate on mounted

Hi! I would like to ask a question. What adapter can I buy to attach FD lens mount to an E-mount lens. I would like to try my grandfather's old lens with my sony zv e10

is there a difference in image quality or look compared to the different versions?

Thank you very much

With the same price what should i choose new fd / ssc ?

Get some caps on those!

Do FL radioactive?

Can I mount a canon FL bellows on an EOS body

do they all mount on the same cameras (canon ae1, canonftb etc)

hey buddy, is there any IQ difference between the SSC and nFd version of 50mm f1.4?

My ssc has not a single bit oil on the Blades.You get what you pay.

I can’t understand why your channel isn’t getting more views. It certainly isn’t because you aren’t trying. Is it true that FL lenses aren’t very well constructed? I remember reading that somewhere years ago. There do seem to be a lot listed on auction sites that are inoperative.

Thanks, very nice and useful stuffs. Too bad you’re not having too many subscribers.

What’s that intro song?

So the 50/1.4 SSC was love at first sight and then this Nikon user had to buy an F1 to go with it...

you forgot the R mount...

good information, but the intro needs to be cut to less then 5 sec

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