NO, you don't understand the KEY difference, CANON EOS is a much better mount than FD ever was and its Better than Pentax has now. CANON users got something In return for the design change. Pentax users are Getting ZILCH in return because there is no new mount Or new mount features. DUH. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:32 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: The JCO survey > Do you even know the technical differences > Between the FD and EOS mounts? EOS mount > Has things (improvements ) that FD mount could never do. > Canon decided it was better to start from scratch > On the EOS lensmount rather than do what pentax > Did which was shoehorn AF into what they already had. > BUT, since pentax did this, there is no reason why > The K/M cant be fully supported even with the current mount. For the fourth time. There is also no reason why Canon could not have accomodated FD users, either by greating a mount that could use an adaptor to allow FD use (Pentax managed that marvel of engineering 10 years earlier), or they could have continued to make a quality legacy body to allow use of FD lenses. They chose to do neither, which flies in the face of: "You fail to understand the signifigance that > LENSES not bodies last forever practically and long term > Support of the lenses is of utmost importance. " Which is what you said earlier in this thread in relation to Pentax. John, I look at what you have put forward in this debate. On the one hand, you say lenses last practically forever, and that long term support is of utmost importance. On the other hand, you say Canon did the right thing by dropping support for FD lenses almost immediately after introducing the EOS cameras. One or the other can be the truth, but not both. I'll let you decide which one is the lie, and you can get back to us. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
