Chez Wimpy

IIRC the main "complication" of the f2 zooms (and the new Sigma f1.8 zoom) is that they are FF designs with "speed booster" groups applied at the rear end.  I can only assume it was easier to...

Olympus has the OMD EM5 for just about that price... and it has the added benefit (beyond an IBIS DSLR) of a stabilized viewfinder, and rotational stabilization around the lens axis.  It also has a...

wherever Adobe wants it to go.  "Pray I don't alter it any further" Not living in America, I never have had the Hulu/Netflix/AmazonOnline choice for movies and TV, so (in my other major hobby) I...

I'm still wondering where a 100/1.4 is.  Nobody has one (ever?), so we have to choose 85 if we want f1.4+ speeds or 135mm / 200mm if we want to maintain 72mm+ aperture in a "portrait" lens.  I...

Which means it is possible to fit the camera in a side pocket of your bag (pouch?) for a backup / second (third?) body.  Going mostly to m43 has made multiple camera setups routine (UWA and...

A problem inherent to the SLR paradigm... which the Olympus / Olympus OP clearly demonstrates :p

telephoto -> wide angle in descending order. Pretty much the same on every system in my experience.

A 12/2.8 for $1300 when there is already a great 12/2 for around half? A 32/1.8... an odd focal length on m43... when there is a 25/1.4 going for about a third? Touit, no reason to bother (which...

and since there are no f8 lenses for m43, nor the tele-converters to get there, nor fixed "limits" on CDAF operation at smaller apertures...

"at f/2 Canon is pretty lousy"

There is a first time for everything

The Zeiss is faster at focusing...?

At this point it's hardly even Granny Smith vs. Red Delicious.

I think that it matters who makes the sensors... but I also think (Sony) 16MP m43 got us past the point where I long for better DR or high-ISO results.  More pixels would be nice though.  A 5D mk4...

Sony/Pentax mount pending you might get your wish (+ a couple hundred for one of the entry level bodies)... the sensor is so good in those APS-C cameras, it would be an even better lowlight...

Can be used, yes.  This new lens will address a shortcoming of APS-C cameras in that wide FL fast lenses (faster than f2.8) do not exist period.  To have format friendly prime lens capabilities in...

Considering how there aren't any f1.8 (or faster) primes from 18-23mm, no EF-S or anything else (thanks Canon), let alone the cost savings from skipping the 20/1.8, 24/1.4, 28/1.8, 30/1.4, 35/1.4,...

The Sigma is retrofocus to clear the flange distance of the longest DSLR mount (Nikon?), and appears to be a FF design with a focal length condenser group thrown in (ala the Olympus 14-35 and...

They could make a 12-35 constant f1.8 and have it be a fraction of the size due to the lack of a mirror and smaller sensor (coverage)... but it would be insanely expensive as a first-party lens...

Its a Panasonic "thang."  In the US and Japan (mostly in the latter, since the start even) a year into the life of any camera will see prices fall to under 1/2 their starting point.  The GH3 will...

Not "better" than the new 30/1.4 (which was designed for crop cameras) but the Sigma 35/1.4 is another option with f1.4 which is fantastic wide open... unlike the Canon 28/1.8.  The 35L is also...