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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 165056" data-attributes="member: 12827">I have never put anything but Nikon glass on any Nikon I have ever owned and I honestly cannot imagine that ever changing. Brand snobbery? NO. There of course is the compatibility issue, you know that anything Nikon makes is going to be 100% compatible with any body. But NO ONE, not Canon, Pentax, Minolta or even Zeiss, has matched or surpassed the mechanical excellence of the all manual AIS Nikkors. EVER. I am dismayed to say the least at some of the questionable at best mechanical CRAP I have seen come out of Nikon of late, the worst of which is probably plastic bayonet's (WTF are you thinking Nikon???), but I know without a doubt that 25 years from now, if I am still even taking photos, my 30 year old AIS Nikkors will still work as flawlessly as they do today or did when I got them. How many of today's lenses will still be in use 25 years from now? I am guessing very few if any.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 165056, member: 12827"] I have never put anything but Nikon glass on any Nikon I have ever owned and I honestly cannot imagine that ever changing. Brand snobbery? NO. There of course is the compatibility issue, you know that anything Nikon makes is going to be 100% compatible with any body. But NO ONE, not Canon, Pentax, Minolta or even Zeiss, has matched [I]or surpassed [/I]the mechanical excellence of the all manual AIS Nikkors. EVER. I am dismayed to say the least at some of the questionable at best mechanical CRAP I have seen come out of Nikon of late, the worst of which is probably plastic bayonet's (WTF are you thinking Nikon???), but I know without a doubt that 25 years from now, if I am still even taking photos, my 30 year old AIS Nikkors will still work as flawlessly as they do today or did when I got them. How many of today's lenses will still be in use 25 years from now? I am guessing very few if any. [/QUOTE]

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