Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Make the glass fit other cameras, Nikon or Canon, and watch the $$$ flow > in. This has been discussed many times before. I dunno about Nikon, but Canon doesn't want competition for their lens sales. A low-end lens maker can find a niche reverse-engineering the Canon mount and electronics. Sooner or later Canon will find a way to make the 3rd-party lenses incompatible with new bodies. People might be willing to spend a few bucks for a lens that will become a doorstop but I doubt many would be willing to fork out Leica-like cash for a potential doorstop. Leica's alternative is to make the lenses Canon-fit, manual only - which is exactly what an R lens plus adapter is. Why would Leica make manual lenses that would only fit Canon when an R-mount lens plus adapter would work just like a Canon-mount manual lens, and could be used on a Leica-R body as well? Nikon AIS-mount lenses make much more sense than EOS-mount lenses IMHO, especially if the lenses are chipped. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com