Well, I know Canon FD lens users who scour the world for working
replacement bodies as well as collectors items. Most haven't forgiven
Canon and it's been what 20 years. I think Pentax made and continues to
be making a mistake by not fully supporting the old lenses, I'll use
their digital cameras, but I'm not jumping for joy over it.
William Robb wrote:
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>From: "J. C. O'Connell"
>Subject: RE: The JCO survey
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>>Yes but what they did was IMPROVE their entire
>>Mount, Penatax has done no such such thing
>>Here. That's what I am talking about. Its all
>>Loss with no gain. Canon EOS mount had a huge gain.
>>There is no gain with new pentax cameras and lenses
>>With regards to the mount. None.
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>It wasn't a huge gain for the FD mount camera users.
>All the Canon boys that I talked to at the time thought it was a huge
>loss for them, since they no longer had a replacement camera path of any
>consequence.
>You treat the millions of Canon FD users who were screwed as if they
>didn't exist, and treat the few Pentax users who are a bit
>inconvenienced as if they've been screwed.
>I doubt if you see that, but I find it ironic.
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>William Robb
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