Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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