Good point, Godders. And some of the old lenses go for way too much in any case. I'm thinking about selling my K 85/1.8. I love it, and it's a great lens, but I bet it would bring almost enough to buy a new FA 85/1.4. Hmmm. Might do that. Paul On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:06 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> Coming in late on this, I didn't read the thread as there's just too > much... > > On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:41 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > >> At a camera club night a younger meber (using a analog Canon 90 - >> something) >> was looking at all the DSLR's - aiming to choose/buy one. >> He liked the Pentax, it felt good to the hands, he thought. >> I told him about the backwards comaptibility - how he could use 50 >> year old >> lenses, with certain limitations to functionlity. > > As much as it is a nice feature, it's mostly irrelevant if you don't > already own a lot of older Pentax lenses. > > When I bought my DS, I bought a bunch of A and M series lenses to > figure out what I really wanted. One by one, I've sold them off as I > bought the current, latest series lens in the focal lengths I wanted. > You only get all the features of the body with the latest series > lenses (F, FA, DA) and I didn't see anything so special about, say, > the A50/1.4 that the FA50/1.4 doesn't provide, and the FA model > provides more. > > I can see buying older lenses like this as a way to get a good lens > that you can't afford a new one of, but overall the new lenses in the > latest series outperform the older ones. > >> A member with a Canon 20D said "Oh, Canon's can do that too". So, >> they >> decised to try it right away. >> The test came to a very quick stop, as it was not possible to even >> mount the >> old Canon lens on the 20D body ;-) > > This again? Sheesh. It works with an adapter, if you can find one. > You need an adapter to fit M42 lenses to the Pentax DSLRs too. So > Pentax direct lens compatibility goes back to 1971 where Canon goes > back to 1984 or something like that. A good thing is that the Pentax > adapters are easy to find and do not need to have any optics in them. > > But there's no point ... Better to think of it that the EF series EOS > lenses fit all the EOS series Canons, the FD series do not, and the > EF series lenses provide all functions on all EOS series bodies. The > FL/FD series lenses fit the Canon FL/FD bodies. Canon switched over > 22 years ago or something like that. Canon owners with a big > investment in FL/FD lenses whine about it all the time still. The > only 'hiccup' in Canon EOS lens compatibility is the introduction of > EF-S series lenses for the small sensor bodies. > > For whatever it's worth, the lens mount change was one of the things > that gave Canon an advantage in their body designs since. The EOS > mount is larger and wider, allowing more freedom in optical design, > and has state of the art camera to lens communications couplings. > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
