speaking of quality cameras by lesser popular brands, the ricoh k-mount cameras are amazing. The performance/price ratio one can hit on them due to low demand is really cool. They are my preffered manual focus k-mount bodies.
cheers, nitin On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:19:55PM -0500, T Rittenhouse wrote: > At one time the was the Nikon F. It was the only SLR Nikon made. The made > two RFs back in those days but the difference was features, not quality. > Nikon meant quality. Then Marketing looked around and said, Nikon means > quality, we will produce junk cameras with the Nikon name on them, the > unwashed will not know the difference. An behold, they were right, the > unwashed show you their EM and said it's a Nikon! Then all the other Makers, > said this is good! And proceed to make all kinds of cameras with their names > on them. Most were cheap junk, but a few who were known for cheap junk > actually made quality cameras and put their names on them. The fell by the > wayside for the unwashed said, look how much they want for that cheap junk > camer when I can get a Nikon for half the price. > > The moral of this story? The unwashed get what they deserve, screwed. > > Ciao, > Graywolf > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:51 PM > Subject: Re: Switching to Pentax > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ed Mathews" > > Subject: RE: Switching to Pentax > > > > > > > All AF Nikkors have always had an aperture lock. And Nikon > > has great > > > compatibility amongst most of their bodies. I can use all my > > current AF > > > lenses on my 20 year old F3 with full function, and old AI > > lenses from > > > the 70's work fine on my F100. Sure, they have some issues > > with their > > > amateur line cameras, but the people that buy those are by and > > large not > > > looking for complete compatibility with old stuff anyway. And > > Pentax > > > has some issues with some of their cheapest AF bodies also. I > > think > > > both Pentax and Nikon need to be commended on their > > compatibility > > > between most bodies for older and newer items working > > together, > > > especially comparing AF and non AF items. They are in a > > different > > > league than Canon and Minolta in this regard. > > > > My old non AI Nikkors would not mount on my FM or FM2. I could > > mount them on my FE, but I lost open aperture metering. These > > were not bottom of the range cameras, BTW. The cure was to send > > the lenses in for new and ugly plastic aperture rings, and they > > only did this for a couple of years, and it wasn't cheap. After > > they stopped putting aperture tabs on the AI lenses, they would > > no longer meter couple to my F2. > > Then there was an entire range of camera bodies that didn't have > > the flip up aperture coupler tab, so you couldn't mount a non > > AI'd lens, no matter what. > > The cure was to remove the aperture ring and grind (file) away a > > chunk of it so that the lens would mount. If you were off by a > > bit, so what? It just meant you couldn't trust your light meter > > with that lens anymore. > > And there was an entire range of cameras that just simply would > > not work at all with anything other than an AF lens > > Nikon forced their users to make expensive equipment upgrades to > > continue using their equipment in the cross platform way that we > > take for granted with Pentax. > > At the time, I didn't really see why I should have to buy 3 F3 > > bodies, just to have reasonable redundancy WRT backup cameras, > > and be able to use all my available lenses. > > They are still playing the same game, by forcing people to buy > > either their top tier cameras to get complete compatability with > > their older lenses. > > Pentax has dropped full compatability on their cheapest AF > > camera body, recently. > > This may indicate a trend, but I hope not. If it does, they are, > > at least, 20 years behind Nikon in this respect, which is, IMO, > > a good thing. > > > > William Robb > > - > > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
