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Article #624254Re: Computers, anyone?
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:17
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:17
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 09:06:34 -0400, Bud Frede <fr...@mouse-potato.com> wrote: >Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes: > >> >> Getting ready to sell my Olympus in a garage sale, and there's a good >> possibility no one will want it. I want to cry. That camera took wonderful >> pictures, even with my limited knowledge of appropriate settings, but >> dead-tree pictures are in the past now. >> >> I think you can get good digital SLR cameras, but the cost is about the >> same as a good film camera, you're paying for the optics. > >I'm still using some of the lenses I bought in the '70s for a Nikon >SLR. I use them with a Nikon digital SLR. > >The lenses also work on the Nikon F I inherited from my father and that he >bought in the '60s. The big change in lens mounts for most manufacturers wasn't related to going digital, it was related to incorporating autofocus, which requires some way to adjust the lens focus under electronic control. Most of the current mounts predate digital by several years.
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