FD mount to digital

[Karl Shah-Jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not the *perfect* solution, but one I think a lot of diehards with manual 
lenses will like..

As we all know camera makers of yore made cameras.   Lens makers 
surprisingly made lenses.. and both of these makers did what they did quite 
well.

Then some camera makers decided to add a proprietary mount and make their 
own lenses to fit.. either some smarty-pants business type individual 
wanting to increase profits - or maybe to ensure their camera did the best 
job and by controlling the lenses that could be used ensured fewer dud 
results from their camera range.

Lope back to the present and we're stuck with piles of great lenses that 
cannot be used on modern cameras without nasty adapters with additional 
glass degrading the optics.  Well, .. Pentax and Nikon users don't have 
these issues to quite the same extent, but we Canon users do.

The plan to butcher a modern DSLR to accept FD lenses was preferable to me 
than butchering my nice lenses to fit the new mount, but still that would 
involve a fair investment and some cameras to be sacrificed to the r'n d.

I ideally would prefer a full frame sensor but I'll take what I can, and 
this looks like the one I'll be taking:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonynexc3/