Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/12

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Subject: RE: Re: [Leica] New Nikon Lens Mount
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:59:16 -0400

Well, actually, Olympus is just days away from unveiling a whole new
system - as in the OM - which will be the first digital SLR system
designed from "the ground up." It is said that it will be available in
the fall...

B. D.

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Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] New Nikon Lens Mount


Why would Nikon, a company that is ailing financially and said to be for
sale at a fire-sale price with no takers invest in a new lens mount
particularly when the have not yet finished taking a beating on the
investment into APS cameras...

Ask Sigma how well a new mount system sells these days!

Perhaps there will be a modification to the existing mount like AI to
AIs or "D" or some other added feature...

a whole new mount makes very little economic sense...

unless they were to unveil a whole new system ala the OM 1 in 1972...
perhaps a 10+ MP full frame compact digital SLR that also takes film, is
no larger than an FM3a, takes f1.0/1.2 lenses in the new mount and sells
with lenses for $249 retail and by the way, is solar powered...

now that would justify a new mount...

A new non F mount would be the straw that broke Nikon's back the final
push to the EOS camp...



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> 
Le jeudi, 12 juin 2003, . 16:53 Europe/Brussels, Douglas Herr a .crit :

> Something in this doesn't make sense.  Supposedly the push behind
> "full-frame" sensors is so people can use the full coverage of their 
> existing lenses - so why would Nikon or any camera maker introduce a 
> new lens mount to take advantage of full-frame sensors, unless they 
> also provide some means of using older lenses with the "full-frame" 
> sensor?
>

Doug,

Maybe because main competitor did it in due time?

But you are right. It doesn't make sense.

Lucien

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