Marco Aries

Back in 2018 I borrowed two lenses from a friend: the Canon FD 24mm f2.8 and 100mm f2.8 to try and review here on the channel and we can say that they helped igniting my love for vintage lenses. In 2019 I got the 28mm f2.8 that I've already shown you and later the same year this 50mm f1.8 and I've been holding on to it since then because it never felt the right moment to review it, for some reason, but i guess the time has come. Let's take a closer look. Canon FD lenses are pretty small and the 50mm is no different being only 37mm long and 180 grams of weight, thanks to the mostly hard plastic body. The iris has five rounded blades, the aperture is clicked and it goes from f1.8 to f22. Pressing the little button on the side and turning the aperture ring past 22 puts the lens into auto exposure mode, but it only works on film cameras. The focusing ring turns a little bit less than 180 degrees and minimum focusing distance is, well, not really impressive at 60 centimeters.