A new lens mount was nothing new for Canon. The FD mount was the fourth
new SLR lens mount in the 12 years since they announced the Canonflex
and R mount in 1959.
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/19/2015 4:18 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
Certainly Canon p*ssed off a lot of FD users !
...Wayne
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Indeed, and that would not be true if they had retained their MF register
distance, as Nikon, Minolta, Canon, Pentax and others did. But Canon had bit
that bullet early. Just when you said Pentax did the right thing, they did
the opposite.
When Canon went AF with film, they abandoned their FD mount for one with the
shortest register distance of any FF SLR.
There was much screaming and gnashing of teeth at the time, but as they
became the universal recipient of adapted lenses from other mounts and their
own AF mount was very successful, it became clear they had made a great
business decision.
Winners Write the History Moose
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