The Micro Four Thrids competition isn’t sleeping and there are a few interesting rumors you should read. I remind you to follow the new MirrorlessRumors website I am working on. There will be many rumors and news about Pentax and Nikon coming soon! Subscribe the RSS feed (Click here), Follow Twitter (Click here), Join the Facebook group (Click here).
1) The first Zeiss lens for the Sony NEX system will be annunced within a few months and it will be a 24mm f/1.7 (more at SonyAlphaRumors).
2) First pictures of the upcoming Smasung NX lenses (MirrorlessRumors.com)
3) Another Nikon mirrorless rumor message sent by a Nikon manager (MirrorlessRumors.com)
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Most of the lenses have very long length.
fix: most of the lenses -> most of the above lenses.
append: especially telephoto lenses are very longer than m43.
I think I get you piscesen. The Zeiss does look at least twice the size of the roughly equivalent pana 20mm f1.7- and the others are larger still. Does make the small NEX body look rather pointless. NEX is also burdened with a much greater sensor size/register distance ratio which will make it much harder for the lenses to be sharp&bright across the frame (as evidenced by the poor performance of the NEX 16mm lens).
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Maybe you should merge x-rumors.com and Mirrorlessrumors.com. There’s very little news concerning Samsung NX system and it is confusing/tiring having to check several sites daily when some of those have three posts a month.
Same goes for k-rumors.com, although Pentax is not mirrorless at the moment …
That’s my plan 😉
Nice. n43 competition aside, that Sony sensor deserves better lenses and camera body.
Zeiss 24mm F1.7 is going to be as important for NEX as is Panasonic 20mm F1.7 for m4/3. Being a bit wider than Panasonic makes it even better, no matter the size.
Samsung lenses are the next logical step for NX, but all have equals in m4/3 except the 85mm. Maybe one day someone makes m4/3 to NX adapter that enables full control? There are several nice lenses over there …
If the E-Mount Zeiss 24mm is as good as the A-Mount 24mm f/2 then I really don’t care if it’s not a pancake lens. Go to Photozone.de and check out the review of the Zeiss A-Mount 24mm on APS-C; it might be the most perfect lens they’ve tested, it has virtually no weaknesses. This new Zeiss 24mm could be enough of a reason for me to choose NEX over m4/3’s (assuming the NEX-7 has a built in EVF and hotshoe).