The japanese blog Egami found a new Nikon patent that descirbes the characteristics of a new 10-100m f/4.5-5.6 lens for mirrorless cameras whcih on the new 2,7 or 2,8 crop sensor will become a 28-280mm lens in 35mm terms. Egami summed the rumored lenses + patent description and those could be the lenses coming from Nikon:
P.S.: There are only ten days to go until the REAL Nikon mirrorless system announcement! 🙂
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Wow, 20 lens elements! I wonder what that will cost.
The 1.2 and 1.4 primes make this system look a bit more appealing.
But no fast 24-35mm equiv. lens for everyday use.
ha.. almost no comments. at the same time even the samsung (!) retro style camera thread has a loot of comments..
nikon? do you really think that this is what the people want?
omg
Here’s an extra comment. The 1.2 and 1.4 primes do indeed make this system a lot more appealing. I can use the 10-30mm zoom for everyday use and the prime(s) for portraits. 🙂 SWEET
What’s with all these zooms starting at 28mm equivalent? That makes them very amateurish. I understand the megazoom doing that, but not the shorter range zoom. Needs to start at 24mm equiv IMO.
I agree… many fine compacts have 24mm as starting point.
28mm is very last century and people are used to getting more not stepping one step back…
Yeah and taking one step back doesn’t work when shooting landscapes with features 8-10 miles away, either.
24mm equivalent is wide. I would love a 14mm equivalent rectilinear, personally. My Olympus 7-14 (2x crop on olympus bodies) is quite nice to have for those wide shots.
Well, considering most of the Nikon DX kit zooms are 18-xxx (eg: 18-55, 18-70, 18-200 etc). It does make a lot of sense that they would stick to that focal length as a starting point.
18mm on a DX sensor (so 1.5x crop factor) would be equivalent to 27mm.
I bet those lenses will be just as big as their m43 counter parts… and just as slow as I see… :.(
Why would I want this compared to m4/3? It’s even worse sensor wise! It’s like pentax Q.
seems we got an other Pentax Q bullshit in here…
We don’t know what the focal registration distance of the rumored CX system will be – hopefully less than 18mm. Have been thinking of late that Nikon could simultaneously design another professional mirrorless system simply by doubling the diagonal elements of everything in the CX design, producing a new system with a 1.35 crop factor, and a 36mm registration distance, or less! Most of the optical design will have been taken care of in the CX engineering. Such a system might be able to take all the FX lenses, and therefore appeal to those with substantial investments in FX, without dinting Nikon’s share of the APS-C market (DX). Given where sensor development and performance is going, do we really need FF mirrorless systems?
Why only two 10x zooms starting at 28mm (equivalent)? If they don’t make a third, I’m not buying.