On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:26 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "eckinator" > Subject: Re: How useful is SDM? > > >> 2010/1/11 David J Brooks <[email protected]>: >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:50 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Dave >>> >>>> But, I'll never buy Canon. I'll quit photography first. >> >> enlighten an FD Canonite please, what is so bad about the EOS system >> (never handled one)? > > > Canon pretty much stuck a sharp object up the collective ass of their > customer base and then gave it a good hard twist. > While the EOS mount is probably safe, I'll not trust Canon ever again. > > William Robb >
Canon had to, their MF mount was a nice design in 1960, but was not amenable to updating and had become functionally obsolete by 1980. Unlike Minolta, who could have stuck AF into SR mount by the same method Nikon and Pentax used, FD had multiple problems causing the need to replace it. The register was too short, restricting mirror size and causing vignetting with super-tele's and the nFD mount was mechanically complex and offered essentially no ability to add electronic lens/body communication. Damn Minolta for their update (although in their defence, they supported SR mount right to the end, the X-700 was discontinued at the same time as the last A mount bodies from Konica Minolta) but Canon had to drop FD to survive. The only real damning aspect was how quickly they discontinued FD production, by 1991 it was essentially done, with no production by Canon, only rebranded Cosina stuff. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
