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From: "Don Sanderson"
Subject: RE: Why choose *ist DL over Nikon or Canon competitors?
I don't know Canon or Nikon at all.
How "backward compatible" are they compared to Pentax
as far as glass?
Nikon is a minefield. They have made numerous small changes to their mount
over the years, each time making old equipment obsolete.
Canon completely obsolesced the FD mount when they put the EOS system on the
market, and made it very plain that this was the way they were going, so
suck it up.
They did support the FD mount for a few years, so people had the opportunity
to buy new glass for a while.
From the point of view of lens compatability, Pentax is, by far, the best
SLR manufacturer.
The other day, I had a 40 year old lens on a 30 year old bellows on a 20
year old extension tube, on my istD.
That works for me.
William Robb
