{"id":12863,"date":"2007-03-25T19:47:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T00:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/?p=12863"},"modified":"2022-04-03T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T18:00:16","slug":"canon-fd-50mm-lens-film-11-8-manual-focus-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/canon-fd-50mm-lens-film-11-8-manual-focus-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon FD 50mm lens (film) 1:1.8 manual focus used"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Note to self mostly I guess:<\/p>\n

Goodbye old buddy lens. I bought this lens in 1980 AFTER I returned from a trip to the Carribean (or Caribbean) so the next time I went someplace like that I’d have a camera. I never went someplace like that again.<\/p>\n

In 1980, I was fat and rich and life was a lark and going into Sportsman’s and buying some camera stuff for a thousand dollars was no big deal. Learning to USE the camera stuff WAS a big deal (for me), and I wasn’t going to “get that” for years to come.<\/p>\n

In the meanwhile, the camera dutifully recorded family trips, holiday occasions, the occasional artistic effort on my part (which was mostly pictures of bugs, a subject I still like), all which took on a vaguely familiar look because I had no composition skills whatsoever when it came to taking pictures. Many of those photos are now sadly stored under suboptimal conditions, and I haven’t gotten them out to review since 1995, at which time I quit reviewing lots of stuff.<\/p>\n

My son, however, landed a job as a newspaper photographer one day, a ride which has taken him far, and since he didn’t have a camera and the newspaper really didn’t either, he used mine until he could get some professional grade equipment. So the Canon 50mm found a new life late in its tour of duty, chronicling events around Spencer Iowa, a task I suspect it enjoyed, because ButtonPushing IS a master photographic composer.<\/p>\n

Then eBay came along. For an amazingly long time, I used film photos there, ultimately frying my original Canon AT-1 body on September 11, 2001, trying to calm myself down by taking idyllic night time Clay County Fair photos, but I replaced that body with an eBay AE-1, and kept shooting with the same lenses.<\/p>\n

After years of that, I finally went digital, and the lenses fell into disuse, and I re-eBayed the body and the other lenses, but I held onto this lowly little 50mm, not so much because it’s one of the most common lenses on the market, as because it meant something sentimental to me.<\/p>\n

In the recent year, though, sentimentality has become an albatross, so the other day, the lens went to its new home, trading at a whopping $18.98.<\/p>\n

Goodbye, old buddy.<\/p>\n

I kept the special cover though…..the Commemorative Anniversary one Canon put out that year or thereabouts, which has long been covered by a round Grateful Dead metal Steal Your Face sticker.<\/p>\n

I’ll get it out every once in a while, and think of all those photos of places like Mount Rushmore that I blew…….<\/p>\n

Realized $18.98 3\/25\/7<\/p>\n