Op Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:32:20 +0200 schreef Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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 No: Canon Fd register is shorter than EOS, so with an adapter you either loose infinity focus, or you need an optical adapter: essentially a weak TC. That is different, and arguably inferior, to M42-to-K... > Canon can take the screw mount lenses too.... and K-mount.... and > etc... all you need are adapters. Just like Pentax. The nice thing You can mount almost everything on EOS, due to the short register and lerge diameter, but not K-mount, unless you castrate the lens. Ask Cotty :o) -- Regards, Lucas -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
