Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sure, something is better than nothing! Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > I dont understand - arent you all happy that there are Nikon bodies, > both film and digital, actually available where 30 year old lenses can > be used? Even in Leica SLR, a much more recent system, the lenses are > not freely usable between bodies. The less said about Canon and > Olympus, the better. Pentax is the other example where old lenses can > be used. I am only talking SLR systems here, where changes have been > retty regular for the last 50 years or so, not rangefinders. I really > think that Nikon made a huge mistake, keeping the F mount constant, > as generally everyone keeps cribbing about this, and not realising how > unique it is. > Cheers > Jayanand Govindaraj > Chennai, India > > Scott McLoughlin wrote: > >> I feel the same way, as probably do many Nikonians. I sprang for >> the D200 recently, and when I got home, my first feeling was, "I >> just spent that much money to stick a 105/2.5 AIS on it and get >> a meter reading?" >> Oh well. At least Nikon hasn't removed the aperture ring from >> all their lenses yet :-) >> >> Scott >> >> Bartphotog@aol.com wrote: >> >>> In a message dated 9/2/06 5:35:59 AM, don.dory@gmail.com writes: >>> >>> << That and I have so many odd lenses that don't fit on any >>> >>> digital anything. >> >>> >>> Isn't that the truth! I have a number of old, manual-focus, Nikon >>> lenses that I like a lot, and considered it a major betrayal of >>> their customer base by Nikon that AI-S lenses I could use in every >>> mode on my old FA, and in aperture-preferred AE on my N70, could be >>> mounted but could not meter, even in match-needle manual mode, on >>> anything less than the multi-thousand dollar super-pro digital >>> bodies. The D200, of course, finally remedies that, but even the >>> price of the D200 is not a sum I spend lightly. >>> >>> Bart >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)