(02-16-2020, 05:02 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: On the one hand yes, that's really quite impressive. On the other hand,
* Have a thing
* Get a new accessory for the thing
* They make sweet, sweet love together
* Mostly live happily ever after despite a few rough patches
This is how the amazing, distant future of the 21st century was supposed to work. Do you think we can get Canon engineers into government positions?
I'm pretty sure they didn't do it on purpose - and if they did it's likely to enable old lenses to work on new cameras, rather than the other way around. If you've dropped 15k on an 800mm glass bazooka and it didn't work on your new camera - you'd be miffed.
And people screamed when Canon broke backward compatibility with the old FD system to introduce an EF lens. Especially those professionals who'd invested 15k in those glass bazookas.
(02-16-2020, 05:19 PM)robkelk Wrote:(02-16-2020, 02:36 PM)Dartz Wrote: As for why I did something this dumb? Someone bought be a voucher for Christmas and it was one of the few ways I could spend it.
But the 24-70mm zoom lens is one of the basic tools of the trade - everybody with an SLR camera should have one! (IMHO, at least.)
And there're plenty of second-hand ones from the 80's and early 90's out there - I even have one. It's definitely showing it's age and wear.
Buying a new one for a camera of this age would be - unusual. Like putting an SSD in an IBM PC or something similar.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.