--- Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 05:18 PM 06/27/2001, you wrote:
> >The search engine and database definitely need a
> >little tuning... if you look for "Canon autofocus"
> >lenses, you get no hits.
>
> That's because Canon doesn't CALL them "autofocus."
> Try "Canon EF" w/out
> the quotation marks.
Henry, Canon doesn't, but the B&H site does. If you go
to the used lens page (From the home page, Used
Equipment->Photo->35mm Lenses) and look at the
dropdown menu selections, you can select "Canon Auto
Focus (Eos)" in the menu that selects the lens mount
and click on "Submit". No hits are returned, which
could leave someone to wrongly conclude that B&H has
no used Canon autofocus lenses for sale, made by Canon
or otherwise.
If, however, you select only "Canon" in the "Brand"
dropdown, you get all Canon-made lenses, including EF
and FD lenses. I would suspect that the database
doesn't yet contain the search keys that identify
Canon EF lenses at "Canon autofocus (Eos)" lenses.
Maybe it's just familiarity, but I prefer the way the
KEH site is structured quite a bit better.
MadMat
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