What you are seeing with used Canons on the used market is people who have gone autofocus from manual focus. Pentax and Nikon are still backward compatible, meaning Nikon and Pentax manual focus lenses still work on autofocus bodies. Canons do not. That's why a lot of Canon users were ticked when Autofocus came along. They had to trade in everything to go autofocus. If you think a new flagship autofocus leaves you a little high and dry, think about Canon folks who bought top of the line Canons a few months before the switch to autofocus way back when. Manual focus canon glass is all over the place for a song and dance... Vic
In a message dated 10/19/02 4:39:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Hey folks, I've noticed something really uhh..weird. In the two best camera stores here with used equipment, there are always a number of extremely large telephoto lens from Canon. Nothing from Nikon, nothing in Pentax, etc. But always 2 or more Canons. On Stan C Reades Photo Day when all the reps came out, Nikon table was bare, Pentax had the Optios couple of SLRs, and of worthy note, the (not yet field proven) FA 24-90mm, the FA 100mm f/2.8 macro (which caused me to buy mine) and the FA 20-35mm which from what I've heard is very nice. Nothin longer than the 100mm and no real FA* :( Anyhow, Canon was next door to Pentax, and they had like 6-10 very long, very heavy, white telephotos. So what's up, are Canons the choice for sports or nature photography? While Nikon is a studio camera? In the stores you could make the case that they are older and don't work with newer bodies and so the owners are selling them, but that doesn't work with the Canon Reps having all those long thingies out there, since they would no doubt be the latest. Am I missing something? Brad Dobo >>
