Advice on a good FD to EF format Canon lens converter?

[Otter Spotter]

Hi,

I read an article in one of the Photo mags regarding convertors from FD old style Canon lenses to modern EOS EF format lenses. I have looked on E Bay and there seems to be a number of them available,some with glass and some without?

Has anybody any experience with these?, I have a Canon 20D and I am looking to widen my lense collection by buying older lenses to experiment with before I start selling my family heirlooms.

I would also be grateful for any information regarding the way these converters effect the readings on the camera display?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Take care
Andy

[NJP87]

H Otter spotter, i have not used one my self so can't tell you what the quaility is like.

The glass in the adapter is there so that the lens can focus to infinity.

As for metering i found this on flickr
"The really great thing with EOS is that they still meter with a non EOS lens. While not full matrix type metering - it's reasonably accurate." Flickr also has a lot of images and discussions about fd to eos adapters.

[eeyore]

given the number of eos lenses available second hand i really wouldnt bother - converted FD do meter but they dont autofocus, and do you really want your metering to be jus"reasonably accurate"

its fair enough if you already own a load of FDs but if you dont i'd be inclined to start building up a set of second hand EF lenses instead ( incidentally watch out for some of the third party lenses - particularly sigma - where the older EF ones deont all work with the digital eos cameras )