Question about Canon FD lens

[italy74]

Good evening everyone
a friend of mine has still a Canon F1 film camera and tonight told me he would like to look for an old 300mm lens with fluorite glass released in the mid '70s (1975?) I have no idea which kind of aperture or engraving I might find on it, so I'd like to ask you which one could be. F/2.8? Being a professional lens, it might be, but I warned him that such a lens might be quite heavy to handle. It might be also F/4 or F/5.6, but again he had no idea at all nor I have. He told me at that time the lens costed the equivalent of 750€ (of course at that time 750€ had much more value than now) ... Anyone is able to tell me which lens is it and how to recognize it so that I could help him ? TIA

 

[Mackinaw]

Your friend is probably referring to the "FL-F" series of telephoto lenses Canon made back in the 1960's and 1970's (the "F" after the FL stands for fluorite). Canon made a FL-F 300/5.6 lens and a FL-F 300/2.8 lens. Both are easy to recognize, they have the FL-F engraving on the barrel of the lens. Expect to pay a pretty penny, the fluorite lenses were hard to make and were produced in low numbers. Collectors covet them too.

Jim B.

 

[venchka]

Everything Canon....

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/canonf1/index.htm

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/

Ask these folks to let you know if they ever get one...

http://www.keh.com/

 

[berlincontemporary]

Your friend is probably referring to the "FL-F" series of telephoto lenses Canon made back in the 1960's and 1970's (the "F" after the FL stands for fluorite).

True. However, there was a later FD SSC Fluorite too:

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/lens/fd/data/100-800/fd_300_28_ssc_fl.html

 

[dogberryjr]

Here ya go: http://www.fdreview.com/lens-review.php?itemid=45