[Leica] Am I wasting my time/money?

[jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

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
>>
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