Ashok Kandimalla has been in the photographic field for over three decades and has extensive experience in both film and digital photography. Being an electronics engineer by profession and a photographer, he possesses a unique and deep insight into the technical aspects of digital photography and equipment. He has published more than a 100 articles on photography and some of his writings have also been published in the well-known international magazine Popular Photography. An avid collector of photographic books and vintage cameras, Ashok has a keen interest in the history of photography and a passion for sharing his knowledge on photography through teaching and writing. He is the only Indian photographer to be featured on the Nikon Centenary website. He is presently working as a Management and Engineering consutant. He can be reached at kashokk@gmail.com.
First an overview. Cameras are made by multiple manufacturers. This promotes innovation, gives us more choices, and keeps the prices down. An unfortunate consequence is that each brand sticks to its own standards and the result is the ‘Tower of Babbles’. In other words, most of the accessories, especially the lenses, are not interchangeable between makes. A few feeble attempts were made earlier to create a universal lens mount (T-Mount for example) and some mounts like the M42 (also called Pentax / Practica mount) were very popular with
