FotasyCanon FD Lens to Leica L Adapter, Adapter for Leica TL SL Panasonic S Mount

Just like with my old Fotasy FD-M4/3, it's a little finicky with certain lenses. Sometime I think I have it on right but the aperture ring spins without actually stepping down. So sometimes I have to remount the lens. It's not that big of a deal since I'm not usually in a hurry changing lenses when using my old FD lenses. I typically use them for soft 'artistic' and 'cinematic' shots, not professional work where I look like an amateur changing lenses, so who cares. If I ever go to another lens mount, I'd buy this Fotasy dummy converter for the FD lenses again. Cheap and Works.

Product works as intended and has good quality but it's a bit overpriced.

This is a more long term review! I've been using this adapter on my Lumix S5 with my FD lenses for well over two years. It works fine, for the most part! I've never been able to reach infinity focus on any of my FD lenses, and I have tested a bunch of them. Not on my Sigma primes, Vivitar primes or zooms, or even the first party Canon FD lenses. The metal ring in the middle, I keep having to screw it back down. It works fine but I'm not sure what causes this either. It gets too loose. I love Fotasy, I have different adapters for all my different cameras, but I think I'll buy another to see if I can get infinity, since I've wanted to use my FD lenses without them only being able to reach 20 feet on the infinity marker on all of them.

The Panasonic S1 is a great video camera but their L-mount glass lenses are prohibitively expensive (be they panasonic branded or even sigma branded)... As an owner of EF and FD glass from Canon, I have used the Sigma MC-21 adapter for EF lenses (honestly overpriced as the autofocus is sloppy and I mostly use it in manual), and thought I'd try these cheap Fotasy canon FD adapters for L-mount, and lo-behold they work well, no complaints. It's all manual and mechanical in terms of aperture control and focusing, but I'm very happy about the results. I've tried the canon FD 50 1.4 and a very useful Vivitar FD 28-90 F2.8-3.5 zoom lens on the S1 with this Fotasy FD to L mount adapter, and the results are lovely. Now I can have a great variety of lenses to use for the S1 without going broke with Panasonic or Sigma's money grabbing lenses (I'm not even talking about Leica which are for the top 0.1% wealthy owners/occasional shooters only)... Yet I'm a pro and have created many award-winning works but Panasonic never learns from their past mistakes, they just want to continue charging exorbitant prices for their lenses and paying for their talentless bloggers to shill for their overpriced lenses... Now with these types of adapters, you need not empty your wallers no more... yay!

It's fine.