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What lenses do we need?

Started Jun 4, 2014 | Polls thread
tt321
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What might look like gaping holes could actually be financial sink holes
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At the moment, we do have a lot of good primes, a good range of slow, cheap and small zooms, and a decent number of fast zooms already. What's missing is a range of f4 (at the long end) zooms of mid quality, mid price, and mid compactness covering a more normal range (not UWA or U-tele, basically a 12-40 plus a 40-150). These correspond with where third-parties are most active in other formats and with OEM items completely missing, it would seem at first glance a good place for them to take a foothold.

However, zooms like these would be entirely missing glamour and 'appeal'. As a result, although there seems to be quite a lot of open water between the prices of 2.8 zooms and 5.6 zooms, esp. in the kit and 40-150 ranges, nobody would join in. Who would buy a 40-150/4 for £500, or a 14-45/4 for £400?

They also make no sense on the NEX so the door to porting a NEX design onto M43 is shut.

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