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Originally Posted by Renato1
Must be a Nikon thing.
Sony DSLR owners would be ropeable if their 30 year old Minolta A mount lenses and teleconverters didn't work on their current cameras.
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And that happens to be the case only because Sony (with no SLR history of themselves) decided as recently as 2005 to acquire what was left of Konica Minolta's SLR business.
The Nikon F-mount is in fact the oldest SLR mount still in use, having been introduced in 1959. AI (auto-indexing) is not a mount, but a feature added to the F-mount in the late 70s. The mount had several features (incl. AF) added over time and managed to remain backward compatible to this day.
I can put a 1959 Nikkor on my D7000 and it'll work just fine. That doesn't mean one shouldn't be delighted by this
Cheers
Steffen.