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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Backwards lens compatibility (was Re: Big/fast EOS lens advice sought)
- Message-ID: <24218@alice.att.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:00:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24218
- References: <1992Nov16.192217.10146@adobe.com> <PD.92Nov17105403@horus.sics.se>
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- In article <PD.92Nov17105403@horus.sics.se> pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson) writes:
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- > No, you can't mount a twenty year old Nikkor on a Nikon camera made
- > today. Chances are you'll damage the camera, and the meter just won't
- > work since modern Nikons don't have the mechanical coupling.
-
- You're unlikely to damage the camera. Moreover, I have a vintage-1964
- lens that fits just fine on modern bodies. Of course, it has been
- modified a little.
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
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