Wannabe Nikon Convert...

[LarryD]

How many of you Still when you mount a lens on a Nikon find yourself rotating the aperture ring back and forth? I did it just today and grinned at myself. Thing is I put it on an F100.

[BillyBob]

In the meantime, my IIIf & FTbN can keep me company (you want heft? Find a nice FTbN sometime or an F1. Serious heft LOL )

The Canon FD system has to be one of the best deals going.  The - very good - lenses are dirt cheap now; I recall paying $300 for a used 24/2.8, and even more for a 25-105/3.5.   I saw a 24/2.8 listed for $30 not that long ago.  And the zoom with a group of others for under $100.  So you can build a very nice system very economically.  Sure the lenses aren't useful on anything else but micro-four-thirds, but since you didn't pay that much, it's not a big deal.

Funny about Scott's comments about Nikon nomenclature confusion.  When I was looking at (used) AF gear I found the EOS/Rebel naming a little confusing.  Perhaps it was just how sellers were listing their gear, but the Nikon body-naming seemed more clear - even though the naming sequece doesn't appear to reflect the order in which they were introduced (e.g. my F65 I believe is newer than my F90).  So I went with Nikon for my AF needs.

cheers!
Bill

[br1078lum]

I never could break myself of that Larry.

I'd like to expound a bit on the Automatic Index system for Scott's behalf.  The original F Photomic's and Nikkormats needed to have the ASA indexed manually to the maximum aperture of the lens being used.  On the Nikkormat FT, this was accomplished with the use of a lockable sliding ring on the shutter speed ring.  It had to be reset every time you changed to a lens with a different max aperture.  With the introduction of the FTn, this was no longer neccessary.  When mounting a lens on the FTn, all that was needed was a quick turn of the aperture ring fully left and right to set the index. The ASA setting was moved to the base of the film rewind.

PF