35mm SLR · 1971–1990

Canon FD mount cameras

Canon launched the FD mount in March 1971 on the professional F-1, and it carried the FTb, AE-1, AT-1, A-1, AE-1 Program and the rest of Canon's manual-focus SLRs. Original FD lenses lock on with a breech-lock ring you turn while the lens stays put. New FD lenses from 1979 mount by twisting the whole lens like a bayonet, and they fit the same bodies. Canon moved to EOS and the EF mount in 1987, and the T60 of 1990 was the last FD body it introduced.

Older Canon FL lenses fit FD bodies but meter stopped down, and R-mount lenses also need manual aperture. FD lenses don't fit EOS bodies. Canon briefly sold an adapter with corrective optics for certain FD telephotos, and adapters without optics badly hurt image quality.

6 cameras we cover.