Talk:Lens mount

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"Creating screw threads of the necessary precision, across many camera and lens manufacturers, is too troublesome."

This is just some conjecture on my part. Can anyone offer information supporting or challenging my suggestion? Imroy 20:25, 2005 May 29 (UTC)

[edit] Merge idea

This was suggested at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Focusing lens mount, I'm posting the mergeto and mergefrom tags to encourage discussion. Stifle 23:18, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lens mounts

It should be noted that the use of different lens mounts on photo cameras was not primarily due to marketing considerations but due to a patent dispute. There was a broad consensus among camera manufacturers to us a standard mount to replace M42 as it was not adequate for electronic controlled cameras in the late 70's. This consensus was destroyed when one of the manufacturers obtained a patent for the suggested mount and wanted royalties from all others. Alf photoman 14:33, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Any idea who that was, or any books or articles talking about it? I know for pretty sure that that's what happened in rangefinder cameras; Leica screw mount was obsolete, Leica invented the M bayonet mount and patented it. It didn't hurt, of course, that marketing considerations also encouraged makers to use incompatible mounts. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 16:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Of course, use of the M42 mount was not 'universal' in the first place; Canon, Nikon etc were already using proprietary mounts by that point. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 16:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal

I recommend that the table in list of lens mounts be moved into this article. Neither is big, and there's no reason for two articles on the same subject with one being just the table. Dicklyon 23:34, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Hearing no immediate outcry, I went ahead. If anyone objects, say so here or back it out. Dicklyon 20:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks good, but shouldn't it replace the other list in the earlier section? It seems rather redundant now. --Imroy 22:20, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The other organization may have some use. Probably it would be best to separate out the list into categories like those. But I don't know the history of who thought what would be more useful, so I decided to do no more yet. Feel free. Dicklyon 07:04, 21 September 2007 (UTC)