Hi Harrie, Your posting reminds me that some years ago I recall a journalist suggesting that Minolta were paving the way for digital with their APS SLR, the Vectis, with its new, incompatible, and smaller lens mount etc. Doesn't seem to have happened yet. As far as I know Minolta hasn't yet made any interchangeable digital cameras, but who knows, as (physical) chip sizes increase the Vectis lenses may yet come into their own! For my own part I'm a pure amateur with a quite reasonable collection of EF lenses, including 3 L teles (135, 200 & 300). I too have been waiting for the D60, and last February bought a Nikon CP775 so that I could learn the basics of digital photography. It's totally transformed my view on things - particularly no-fuss macro, and museum shots where colour temperature is no longer an issue. I'll never use a film based point and shoot again, and I'm very impressed with Nikon's matrix metering on this (lowest priced for a period) camera. I'm going on vacation in a few days, and expect I'll be splitting my photos between the CP775 and my EOS3 fitted with a 17-35, 28-135 and the lightweight 80-200, with may be an EF 35f2 for dull days. (Note that I'm not intending to burden myself with the teles when holidaying! .... and I am leaning to the new CP5700 which may cause a total rethink on what I eventually keep and sell. Slide shows on a 17" Trinitron aren't as good as Provia 100F on a big screen, but certainly can be quite impressive.)
I guess we'll all be seeing somewhat less, and less good, bokeh in the future! Malcolm Milton Keynes, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Harrie Frericks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:49 AM Subject: EOS Future of EF lenses in digital era > I'm thinking about buying a D60. It seems to me digital cameras have now > reached critical mass and will start dominating the market. This means there > will be no need for Canon to stick to current camera body dimensions which > after all are based on 35 mm film technology. Could this mean that Canon > will abandon the current EF lens line in favour of smaller lenses? A sign in > this direction might be that Canon kept the 1.6 elongation factor when > upgrading from the D30 to the D60. Maybe this is the start of a continuous > miniaturisation process that might end up in a 100 Megapixel camera the size > of a compact camera. Wouldn't it be logical for Canon to drop their current > EF line and switch to a smaller line compatible with the new generation of > small digital cameras? * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
