EOS Rebel T7 camera and a Vivitar 80-200 zoom lens

[smithave]

I have a new Canon EOS Rebel T7 camera that I would like to pair with an old Vivitar 80-200 zoom lens. Does Canon have an adapter that would allow me to attach the Vivitar lens to the Rebel camera? 

I would appreciate any guidance.

Ray

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

There is a small possibility that this lens could work manually.  What lens mount does it have?

Canon doesn't sell adapters for this.  It would be 3rd party if its even possible / available.  Vello makes a FD to EF-S

Honestly, its not worth it.  I had a Vivitar Series 1 70-210 Macro Zoom in 1978.  So you are trying to pair technologies with a 30+ year time span between them.  I would recommend buying a lens designed for your camera.  Thats up to you though.

[normadel]

Is this an old manual-focus lens?  There are numerous adapters (not from Canon) to mount your lens on a Canon DSLR body. 

The problems are:

1. You will not have any auto focus or aperture control. Manual only.

2. The adapters to a Canon DSLR have an optical element in them to provide for infinity focus, and these elements are not very good image quality. I have one from Fotodiox that has a removable element, so you don't lose image quality, at the expense of infinity focus. But, interestingly enough, a mirror lens focuses PAST infinity and infinity-focuses just fine.

The adapters are cheap, so you COULD try one out to see what you think of it. I only use mine with an old FD-mount Vivitar 500mm mirror lens.

Canon DID make an FD-to-EF adapter that was said to be of very high optical quality. It was very expensive, and it is very rare. I have never actually seen one.

[smithave]

Thanks, Rick. Best Buy has a 200mm zoom lens for the Rebel T7--over a thousand dollars. I am not THAT good a photographer. Plus it was so heavy I could not have held the camera steady enough to take an unfuzzy pic.The Vivitar 8-200 is much lighter than the Canon. Do you know where I  might get an adapter for a Vivatar zoom and a Rebel T7? 

Thanks so much for your help. As you can tell, I am a novice cameraman with a limited budget.

Ray

[smithave]

Thanks so much for your reply. I am such a novice, tho, I understood very little of what you said. The Vivitar zoom lens I have is 80-200--you manually dial up the settings. It is old--maybe 40 years old. I had attached it in the past to a non-digital camera and the combination worked well for what it was. I bought a digital Rebel T7 with a "zoom" up to 55mm thinking I could get DETAILED CLOSE-UP pictures of the wildlife in my backyard but the 55 mm lens does not give me the CLOSE-UP DETAIL I was looking for. Best Buy had a Canon 80-200 mm zoom for the Rebel camera--for over a thousand dollars which I could not afford (nor technically appreciate.}. PLUS that lens/camera was so HEAVY I could not have taken an unfuzzy picture just holding the camera. I would have had to mount the camera on a tripod which would make the setup too visible to the subjects.

I have an 80-200 zoom --no expense--plus it is much lighter than the Canon zoom IF I could just figure a way to attach it to the new Canon body.

Thanks again for listening and for trying to help.

Ray

[stevet1]

Ray,

I tried that approach myself when I first got started, and finally gave up in frustration.

I couldn't hold the camera steady, and decided my eyes weren't good enough any more to trust manually focusing. I had to rely on the camera's auto focusing system.

A really good solution for me was to save up for a little while and get a 55-250mm Is STM lens. They only run about $250.00 and is a great lens.

Steve Thomas

[jrhoffman75]

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@smithave wrote:

I have a new Canon EOS Rebel T7 camera that I would like to pair with an old Vivitar 80-200 zoom lens. Does Canon have an adapter that would allow me to attach the Vivitar lens to the Rebel camera? 

I would appreciate any guidance.

Ray

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[johnrmoyer]

These old manual lenses from film cameras are fun to use and some of them work as well on a digital camera as they ever did on a film camera so I think that you should keep the lens.

A problem with using theses old film camera lenses on a DSLR is that the distance from the sensor to the flange on the lens becomes too large when an adapter is inserted. For the newer R series cameras this is not a problem. I use a 45 year old Minolta lens from a film camera on my EOS R5 using an Urth brand adapter that cost less than $40, but I guess that you would lose infinity focus on your camera but still be able to use your 80-200 for macro.

I agree with others that

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[smithave]

Steve, thanks so much for responding! I so appreciate all of you pros taking the time to help a newbie.

Do you have a good source for the "55-250mm Is STM lens"? I guess they could tell me which model, etc. fits a Rebel T7.

Ray

[smithave]

John, thanks so much for your response. Do have a good source for those lenses that you mentioned? I know so little about good cameras and lenses that I could easily make a mistake by purchasing the wrong device.

Ray