Canon A80: Will wide & tele lenses work with future cameras?

I have an A40 with the telephoto lens. The later models will use this same
lens, but with different adapter. But there is NO guarentte of future
camers.

"Tom Trombone" wrote in message
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I have a Canon A80 which I am pretty happy with. I'm thinking about
buying the wide and/or tele lens converters for it, and as they're not
exactly cheap, I was wondering what the chance is that they'll work with
my *next* digicam, which I probably won't purchase for 2 or 3 years.
Are these things strictly proprietary and model specific? Or can I
expect to continue using them with a future model, even if it must be a
Canon. I'd appreciate any informed opinions.

Thanks,
Tom

Tom Trombone wrote:
I have a Canon A80 which I am pretty happy with. I'm thinking about
buying the wide and/or tele lens converters for it, and as they're not
exactly cheap, I was wondering what the chance is that they'll work with
my *next* digicam, which I probably won't purchase for 2 or 3 years.
Are these things strictly proprietary and model specific? Or can I
expect to continue using them with a future model, even if it must be a
Canon. I'd appreciate any informed opinions.

Thanks,
Tom

The replacement for the A80, the A95 uses the same lenses.

Tom Trombone writes:
I have a Canon A80 which I am pretty happy with. I'm thinking about
buying the wide and/or tele lens converters for it, and as they're not
exactly cheap, I was wondering what the chance is that they'll work with
my *next* digicam, which I probably won't purchase for 2 or 3 years.
Are these things strictly proprietary and model specific? Or can I
expect to continue using them with a future model, even if it must be a
Canon. I'd appreciate any informed opinions.

These are afocal converters. They will work, to some extent, with any
lens you can mechanically mount them on. However, the recommended Canon
converters may be optimized for that family of zoom lenses, and not work
as well with other future lenses - either in terms of vignetting, or
geometric distortion, or chromatic aberrations.

But they're probably as good as buying a Kenko or Tiffen converter,
which also can't be optimized for the particular lens in any one
camera.

Dave