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. > 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 ;-) > >
hmmmmm let's see, to mount m42 (50 year old) lenses on a Pentax DSLR you need an adapter.... To mount Canon FD lenses on a Canon DSLR you need an adapter.... Same kind of computability I'd say. So they didn't have an adapter at the club? Doesn't make it any less compatible. The Canon can take the screw mount lenses too.... and K-mount.... and etc... all you need are adapters. Just like Pentax. The nice thing about Pentax is that the k-mount changed very little between manual and auto focus bodies (aperture rings and "A" contacts not withstanding; don't need to start that war again) whereas the Canon manual focus (FD) and AF (EF) mounts are entirely different. -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
