Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/27/99 5:23:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, harrison@mcclary.net writes: << This is true...also the older Canon FD stuff is prety cheap now, but I prefer the old AI non AF Nikon gear. >> The cheapest and most abundant stuff out there is all the Pentax/Practica screwmount, which includes a bunch of bodies and some great lenses (including the Russian stuff). But only Nikon, Leica, Contax or Pentax "K" will let you move up to the latest gear and still integrate the older stuff into a system even if some of the metering (and of course AF in the case of Nikon and Pentax) functions aren't forward compatible. DT