I already posted one key improvement that Made fd incompatible, eos has an all electronic Lensmount, no mechanical linkage to control the fd lens apertures. Didn't you hear me on that before? JCO
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:52 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: The JCO survey > Duh, the new eos mount had a whole bunch > of technical improvements that called for > the necessary incompatability with fd lenses. > I bet they still sold fd bodies until the market > dried up for them. don't forget there were > millions of fd bodies on the second hand market > when canon went to eos ( still are lots left even > now). Your first statemnt is false unless you can show evidence to back it up.. The reality is that they chose to make a new mount that was incompatable with the old one. It had nothing to do with technical improvements to the mount. By your logic, Pentax should have stopped supporting the M42 mount when they changed, since the K mount offered technical improvements. 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
