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- From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Backwards lens compatibility (was Re: Big/fast EOS lens advice sought)
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:17:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.192217.10146@adobe.com> <PD.92Nov17105403@horus.sics.se> <1992Nov17.211704.9310@odin.corp.sgi.com> <PD.92Nov18111442@horus.sics.se> <384@biosys.apldbio.COM>
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- In article <384@biosys.apldbio.COM> mpc@apldbio.com (Morgan Conrad) writes:
- >[lots of stuff about putting old Nikkor lenses on new Nikon bodies deleted]
- >
- > Don't forget the reverse - putting new Nikkor AF lenses on old
- >bodies. I can use the latest Nikkor glass with my tough, lightweight,
- >all mechanical FM-2. And, should I eventually get a newer body,
- >the lens will still work. Canon users can't do this, which
- >I think is a big minus.
-
- Not strictly correct:
-
- Among the manual-focus Canon SLRs, you *can* use later lenses with
- earlier bodies. Pre-FD bodies can't meter wide-open, but otherwise
- work just fine (just as though they were working with FL lenses).
-
- I believe that R-series bodies can use FL and FD lenses in manual-only
- mode...but that's how the R-series lenses worked, too.
-
- FD and earlier bodies won't accept EF lenses, but that's the way it
- goes. I believe the choice to go to the new mount will turn out to
- have been the right way to go in the long term; staying compatible
- with the FD mount would have been more costly in the long term.
-
- (For the majority of potential users, it's a non-issue: most sales of
- new cameras come from either new users, who have no investment in any
- previous system, or users switching from some other manufacturer's
- line. We may be more noisy individually, but we are a financial minority
- to Canon. Also Minolta, etc.)
-
- Canon seems to be doing pretty well since they introduced the EOS
- line, as do Minolta post-Maxxum.
-
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