This is probably a daft question but I'll ask it anyway (tried a search but no results).

Can you use lenses off the 35mm EOS cameras on the 350D?

Yes, as long as it's an EF lens it will fit the 350D :thumb: I have an EOS 50E and all the lenses I had for that will fit the EF-S digital cameras (300D/350D/20D/30D) - though some non Canon ones may not work properly, e.g. older Sigma lenses.

The 350D will also take EF-S lenses, which will NOT fit on an EF camera as the rear element of the lens protrudes into the camera housing.

HTH ;)

Thanks very much.

As CW says, but you are aware of the crop factor on the 350D? It uses a smaller sensor than full-frame 35mm film, which effectively 'crops' the image down to 15 x 22mm (instead of 24 x 36mm for full-frame). The crop factor is 1.6x so it you have a 50mm EF lens, it will give an angle of view equivalent to an 80mm lens (50 x 1.6 = 80).

This is good news if you like long lenses, eg a 70-300mm zoom effectively becomes a 112-480mm :) The downside is your EF wide-angles are not so wide-angle any more :(

You also get more depth of field with a cropped sensor camera. In canon's case, its just over a stop, so f/5.6 will give you approximately the same depth of field as f/8 on a full-frame camera.

Cheers,

Richard.

Thanks for that. I have an 80-200 Canon lens but no wide angle ones so shouldn't cause me too many problems.

I have an older Sigma 70-210 lens that sometimes works on my 300D and sometimes it doesn't. Usually works best when my 10year old is trying his hand at a few pics and then when I want to do something it packs up!

andy

Andy, Sigma may be able to 're-chip' your lens to make it fully compatible with your camera.

I have a Sigma 28-70 that throws up Error99 messages - only happens with this lens and its about 12 years old. Sigma said they couldn't rechip this one as they didn't have any spare parts.

I have a Tokina 70-210 thats as old and that works fine, although I prefer my 70-300 as the image quality is better.