Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Good starter body
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 16:37:53 -0700

InfinityDT@aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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

Which would be good because at that point you would want her to switch
to Leica! Like we did!
Mark Rabiner