At one time the was the Nikon F. It was the only SLR Nikon made. The made two RFs back in those days but the difference was features, not quality. Nikon meant quality. Then Marketing looked around and said, Nikon means quality, we will produce junk cameras with the Nikon name on them, the unwashed will not know the difference. An behold, they were right, the unwashed show you their EM and said it's a Nikon! Then all the other Makers, said this is good! And proceed to make all kinds of cameras with their names on them. Most were cheap junk, but a few who were known for cheap junk actually made quality cameras and put their names on them. The fell by the wayside for the unwashed said, look how much they want for that cheap junk camer when I can get a Nikon for half the price.
The moral of this story? The unwashed get what they deserve, screwed. Ciao, Graywolf ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: Re: Switching to Pentax > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Mathews" > Subject: RE: Switching to Pentax > > > > All AF Nikkors have always had an aperture lock. And Nikon > has great > > compatibility amongst most of their bodies. I can use all my > current AF > > lenses on my 20 year old F3 with full function, and old AI > lenses from > > the 70's work fine on my F100. Sure, they have some issues > with their > > amateur line cameras, but the people that buy those are by and > large not > > looking for complete compatibility with old stuff anyway. And > Pentax > > has some issues with some of their cheapest AF bodies also. I > think > > both Pentax and Nikon need to be commended on their > compatibility > > between most bodies for older and newer items working > together, > > especially comparing AF and non AF items. They are in a > different > > league than Canon and Minolta in this regard. > > My old non AI Nikkors would not mount on my FM or FM2. I could > mount them on my FE, but I lost open aperture metering. These > were not bottom of the range cameras, BTW. The cure was to send > the lenses in for new and ugly plastic aperture rings, and they > only did this for a couple of years, and it wasn't cheap. After > they stopped putting aperture tabs on the AI lenses, they would > no longer meter couple to my F2. > Then there was an entire range of camera bodies that didn't have > the flip up aperture coupler tab, so you couldn't mount a non > AI'd lens, no matter what. > The cure was to remove the aperture ring and grind (file) away a > chunk of it so that the lens would mount. If you were off by a > bit, so what? It just meant you couldn't trust your light meter > with that lens anymore. > And there was an entire range of cameras that just simply would > not work at all with anything other than an AF lens > Nikon forced their users to make expensive equipment upgrades to > continue using their equipment in the cross platform way that we > take for granted with Pentax. > At the time, I didn't really see why I should have to buy 3 F3 > bodies, just to have reasonable redundancy WRT backup cameras, > and be able to use all my available lenses. > They are still playing the same game, by forcing people to buy > either their top tier cameras to get complete compatability with > their older lenses. > Pentax has dropped full compatability on their cheapest AF > camera body, recently. > This may indicate a trend, but I hope not. If it does, they are, > at least, 20 years behind Nikon in this respect, which is, IMO, > a good thing. > > William Robb > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
