Sony didn’t wait long time to respond the latest Micro Four Thirds group announcements. Sony said that they will share the basic E-mount specifiactions with third party companies. Read more at Mirrorlessrumors (Click here).
Sony didn’t wait long time to respond the latest Micro Four Thirds group announcements. Sony said that they will share the basic E-mount specifiactions with third party companies. Read more at Mirrorlessrumors (Click here).
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Lol, they’ve decided not to charge people to make lenses for NEX, they must be desperate.
> Zeiss, Cosina-Voigtländer, Sigma and Tamron. All do join the Sony NEX system!
But none of them are known for designing compact lenses.
Or even – Sigma and Tamron – for good quality APS-C lenses. (Based on experience of my colleagues, Canon and Nikon owners.)
Though open E-mount spec is a step in right direction.
I actually haven’t expect that from Sony. They should be desperate, otherwise they would have never given it up. (Just recall how they have handled the memory stick and why the superior tech lost to SD.)
> But none of them are known for designing compact lenses.
I’d consider some of the Voigtländer lenses relatively compact, e.g. the 35mm F 1.4, which (including M-Mount to MFT adapter) is not as small as the pancake lenses, but still smaller than the Oly 9-18 or Pana 45-200. The 20mm F 0.95 is quite large though (but well, it’s 0.95).
> But none of them are known for designing compact lenses.
You must have missed the bit where Zeiss and Voigtlander have been making rangefinder lenses for the past 80+ years.
At photokina 2010, Sony said they ‘ll do that.
Must have missed that. Then NEX it is – the main m43 competitor.
Sammy alone, also as a newcomer, would have hard time finding its niche. But considering that they grow very aggressively, I would also keep an eye on them.
Sony has got the advantage that APS size is more common and more easily adapted for third party manufacturer.
However, they will have lens as big as Other APS camera. To have good egonomics, then they probably need camera with the size of A33 as well, so, can anyone tell me what’s the point to have a A33 with e-mount? I might as well get A33 to have access to all the Zeiss, Minota and Alpha lens there is.
the system still doesn’t make sense. I like Sony alpha camera, but Nex is a strange concept that I just wouldn’t buy into as it is.
I guess it depends if you view mirrorless cameras as something to compliment a DSLR, or something to replace a DSLR. If you’re in the latter group like me then the Sony E-Mount with APS-C sensor makes perfect sense. A body the size of the NEX-3 could be used when you need a small camera along with a pancake prime or a small zoom like their 18-55mm. Then those same primes could be used on a larger body the size of a Voigtlander Bessa R2A for times when ergonomics matter more than small size. On top of that, once global shutters get here and we have ultra fast flash sync speeds studio photographers will flock to mirrorless cameras, and they are going to want the highest IQ and resolution they can get.
That said, Sony has a long long ways to go to catch up with m4/3’s. The APS-C sensor is the only area where Sony is winning IMO. m4/3’s is better in every other department.
The lenses will still be large also would you trust Sony in the long run to stay to an open standard.
Good for them, but by now they should have made some more lenses themselves. It’s been almost a year and nothing else was announced in the NEX lineup. Dropping IBIS compared to Alpha line won’t help as well.
So, more oversized lenses on undersized bodies. Well done Sony….
Sound to me like a dangerous plot from Sony, that currently does’t know what lenses to design, manufacture and sell. Instead Sony let others become guinea pigs and develop the market for them, until Sony comes in and swoops away the feet of Sigma, Tamron et al, with the products that the market really wants.
What will make a difference is if the Sony mount becomes a standard used by other manufacturers as well? A mount that comes together with a sensor, and AF technology, i.e. building blocks. If so, one could expect Pentax, Sony, Nikon, Sigma pursue this roadmap as well.
And what happens to Samsung??
I cannot believe what mktg can do to some people.
What is the point of mirrorless if you cannot claim small lenses with them?
Canon and Nikon are plenty enough and plenty good already here and so who is Sony fooling?
M43 is a small quality compromise for a lot less weight and size. It does have the opportunity to kill a large section of APS-C prosumer market and offers much better quality to improving photographers that started on compacts.
Frankly the Fuji x100 also seems to address where photographers want to go: high quality images in a reasonably compact camera with an excellent viewfinder and prime lens. Zoom lenses have become a terrible fad for nothing: 1 or 2 excellent prime lenses are much better than cheap zooms. Cheap zooms on DSLRs make them look almost like the best compacts nowadays. However there keeps coming a flock of useless zooms, and mirrorless cameras with large lenses and no viewfinder…. a real waste of intellect and no common sense… :((
You guys are very silly. If Zeiss is doing m43 lens, that is great. If Zeiss is doing E-mount lens, that is bad. Remember, Zeiss has been doing lenses for Sony since years.
I understand partisanship (and I actually wouldn’t anymore considering a NEX camera at all for this reason: http://blog.javacorner.net/2011/02/you-dont-own-what-you-buy-worst-than.html )
But reading comments to this post and to the Zeiss in m43 announcement is really, really weird.
well, I’d like to say: good luck Sony!
seems a bit of a reaction to our new glass making friends … but actually I think this is a little sad news for m43 🙁
why?
because at the moment Sigma/Tamron and the like make some APS-C lenses. An example is the Sig 30/1.4 … and we got thrown the bone of a FT mount version of the same lens. That is just not the idea of m43. Our chip would be 48mp if it was FX in size and that demands a better lens than the APS-C 14MB-ish optimized dross. If these companies make lenses for NEX (and NX) they might just make a m43 version too – but they quite possibly won’t be up to the job!
However – on a lighter note – they will be BIG lenses. And Oly and Pan need to get there act together and and take the one advantage that we have: size. Get us some tiny lenses and start pricing them respectfully. Pentax is going to put some price pressure on m43 with its new system and that is good news.
I really hope we don’t just get thrown the spares … at the moment m43 must be a better investment for these companies than NEX but if they design for NEX and then retro-fit to m43 we might seem some junk!
If video is the driving force of the future needs, what criteria says that full HD 1080p (1920×1080) needs bigger and larger sensors than the Panasonic proposed one? Going bigger causes heavier, bulkier, and more expensive equipments – but no substantial or any additional advantages.
Is this going to become a supply cahin war?
Why big lenses? Pancakes exist even with 24×36 coverage, have a look to the lens size of the OM lenses, all of those can be smaller if they have to cover the APS sensor instead.