On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 03:19:06 -0600, christopher wrote:

>I don't need to buy anything but the adapter for the Canon EOS mount.
>I have Canon slr cameras already, and if I want to attach a fisheye or
>very well angle or even telephoto to my xl1-s body, I'm already there.
>There's no need to buy new lenses just for the sake of shooting
>digital video. Any time I might buy a new lense (aside from the
>servo/manual canon one for the xl1s) I'm buying it for two cameras (or
>more.)

The Canon lenses for the still cameras do not work
on the XL-1 as they do on 35mm cameras - multiply
the FL by 7.5(?) or so to get the effective FL in
35mm terms when used on the XL-1. Even fisheyes are
then teles, but teles are then VERY long, a useful
feature...;-)