Re: Nikon celebrates 50 years of F mount lens system
- From: floyd@xxxxxxxxxx (Floyd L. Davidson)
- Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:03:18 -0800
"Colin.D" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Aaahh, Floyd, how many people buy a pro Nikon versus those who buy theNikon is flogging a dead horse here.You abuse Nikon because a consumer grade camera won't
work as well as a pro modle will with one of their
1970's lenses... but say that Canon's inability to use
*any* of their 1970 lenses with *any* of their current
cameras means nothing...
So just who is flogging what?
entry grades?. The entry models, and some pro-sumer versions do suffer
from the limitations I outlined above. For those, lenses can be a
problem. You suggest the way out is to buy a D700 or D3x with a
(mostly) unused focus motor in the body, at multi-thousand dollar
prices? For amateurs and hobbyists?
That continues the flogging! No Canon camera, pro or consumer, can
use a 1970's lense, so why hit on Nikon because only the Pro models
can! That is exactly logical thinking...
Every Canon EOS camera made, from the humble 300D right up to the latest
5DII and the 1D variants can fully use all EF lenses, no limitation.
That advantage alone is worth the mount change.
And of course not one of them can use *any* lense that
Canon made in 1982. But Nikon makes cameras today that
can use lenses they made ten years older than even that.
Nikon painted themselves into a corner by not grasping the nettle and
updating their mount, thereby dooming their system to kludges and lost
capability with many body/lens combinations, not to mention future lens
design.
And that is why I can use 1970 lenses on a Nikon but you
can't on a Canon, because Nikon painted... or maybe you
are trying too hard to color it!
Canon foresaw the huge advantages possible with the application of
electronics to camera functions, even before digital cameras were
envisaged, and bit the bullet by changing the mount right at the start,
setting their cameras and lenses up for unfettered future development.
"Right at the start"... more than ten years after Nikon
had done it. And what do we have today... Nikon has
cameras that can use lenses from the 1970's, and Canon
does not.
Whatever one may think of the actual cameras from both stables, the
Canon mount change was far-sighted indeed. In modern speak, the death
It was years late, and not even close to "far-sighted".
of the FD mount and its lenses could be called 'collateral damage',
justified by the advantages of the EOS mount - which, by the way, still
has much room for future development, squeezing the Nikon mount design
even further.
That's pretty good, for a joke.
As I said, Nikon are trying to make a virtue out of a design mistake
made 25 years ago. Their new cameras are like a modern car, all mod
cons, power steering, active suspension, the works - and powering the
vehicle with a 1950's carburetted Ford flathead V8.
Keep trying fanboy, but that is simply untrue.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@xxxxxxxxxx
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