It's a 20mm f1.7 which makes it a 40mm f3.4. Besides for 800 bucks can buy 2 of them with filters and a optional hood. Then a fullframe body doesn't come cheap.
The 16mp Nikon d4s shoots amazing photo's.
True. But I consider a lowly 24-85VR to be a five m43 primes in one.
lightly used D600 and 6D are very cheap these days.
I agree with that.
I have that lens and the D600. You are 100% wrong.True. But I consider a lowly 24-85VR to be a five m43 primes in one.
Can you post some comparison test shots?I have that lens and the D600. You are 100% wrong.True. But I consider a lowly 24-85VR to be a five m43 primes in one.
Funny that, I got the same setup. Why dont we hold hands?I have that lens and the D600. You are 100% wrong.True. But I consider a lowly 24-85VR to be a five m43 primes in one.
The 1650/2.8 may well be the best mid-range zoom for APS-C cameras there is (not sure about Fuji). Is that why you say it is "optically great"? However, it's MTF chart and other optical characterisitics are decidedly worse than many other lenses that are not APS-C midrange zooms. That could be a reason to suggest it isn't great.
That's funny as even a cursory perusal of you smugmug page reveals mostly images with the lens properly stopped down - which is as it should be ;-)
just buy a LA-EA4 adapter and put the Sony a-mount 16-50mm/2.8 and sigma 50-150mm/2.8 on your A6000. And no it will not be much bulkier than the samsung alternative you suggested plus you will have better PDAF!
That is an amusing observation ! I haven't done a great job flagging photos in Lightroom as favorites, but one thing I try to do when making any major decisions about gear is to not only see how I shoot in total, but how I shoot the things I love to shoot. I have noticed, on a couple occasions (and been surprised, too) that many of my favorites are not shallow DOF shots.
just buy a LA-EA4 adapter and put the Sony a-mount 16-50mm/2.8 and sigma 50-150mm/2.8 on your A6000. And no it will not be much bulkier than the samsung alternative you suggested plus you will have better PDAF!
apart from the NX1, the rest of the samsung bodies aren't on same level as Sony (you said yourself body/sensor is as important as lens). You are looking at 2-3 lenses but instead I suggest you look at the whole picture. Sony has a larger amount of native lenses and not to mention huge amount of adaptable lenses (even just for MF lenses Samsung don't have the same adaptability).
Sony's reasoning is if you want to use bulky lenses there are option already on a-mount you can adapt with full PDAF. Compared to size of the lenses you will be adapting the bulk of adapter is barely even noticeable infact it actually helps the balance. Plus you can add a grip to your A6000 to make the balance a lot better. So now you have options like 70-300mm, 70-400mm, even tamron 150-600mm *with PDAF* where are such options on samsung? beyond the initial 2-3 nice zoom lenses you basically have no such options on any other mirrorless. Even on the wide angle front you can adapt the best UWA lenses like nikon 14-24mm or canon TSE lenses for with AF isn't that important. And you also have the lighter option of using rangefinder lenses.
So thinking Samsung is better for lenses is just short sighted imo.
But if you are convinced they are better, no one is stopping you from swapping. Its your money at end of the day
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The GM1 and many of those lenses are smaller than the 24-85mm lens by itself. Any newbie will also tell you F/3.4 is less than F/3.5 (and the zoom is about F/4 @ 40mm).Can you post some comparison test shots?I have that lens and the D600. You are 100% wrong.True. But I consider a lowly 24-85VR to be a five m43 primes in one.
I am taking about the Sony LA-EA2/4 adapter.
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just buy a LA-EA4 adapter and put the Sony a-mount 16-50mm/2.8 and sigma 50-150mm/2.8 on your A6000. And no it will not be much bulkier than the samsung alternative you suggested plus you will have better PDAF!
apart from the NX1, the rest of the samsung bodies aren't on same level as Sony (you said yourself body/sensor is as important as lens). You are looking at 2-3 lenses but instead I suggest you look at the whole picture. Sony has a larger amount of native lenses and not to mention huge amount of adaptable lenses (even just for MF lenses Samsung don't have the same adaptability).
Sony's reasoning is if you want to use bulky lenses there are option already on a-mount you can adapt with full PDAF. Compared to size of the lenses you will be adapting the bulk of adapter is barely even noticeable infact it actually helps the balance. Plus you can add a grip to your A6000 to make the balance a lot better. So now you have options like 70-300mm, 70-400mm, even tamron 150-600mm *with PDAF* where are such options on samsung? beyond the initial 2-3 nice zoom lenses you basically have no such options on any other mirrorless. Even on the wide angle front you can adapt the best UWA lenses like nikon 14-24mm or canon TSE lenses for with AF isn't that important. And you also have the lighter option of using rangefinder lenses.
So thinking Samsung is better for lenses is just short sighted imo.
But if you are convinced they are better, no one is stopping you from swapping. Its your money at end of the day
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Focus on what you have, not on what you don't.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nandbytes/
they used to make those for the 43 system
Trying to match larger formats is pointless. You say they need f/2 to compete. Compete with what ? f/2 is equivalent to f/4 on FF and FF has f/2.8 zooms. So is that to compete with APS-C ? If they need to do that, then doesn't APS-C need f/2 zooms to compete with FF ? Sony isn't even doing f/2.8 zooms for e-mount.
@sportyaccordy. It is time to give Samsung a try. I just came back from Asia and have a change to test drive the Samsung NX1 with 16-50mm f/2~f/2.8 lens. The AF speed is nearly instant, the EVF is flawless (as good as OVF), and the Build of both the body and lens is beyond believe.
So, do you OWN a GM5?Put all those lenses on a GM5 and it fits in most pockets. The silent shutter is perfect for street photography. No Sony or Samsung can compete and since the apertures are wider than Sony native pancake prime lenses, it would often win in IQ department too.
I mentioned in another forum the Samsung lens lineup is "thin", BUT they offer the lenses I am most interested in. I don't care about ten different kit lenses or five different super-zooms or 30mm macros with less than an inch working distance. A nice range of F/2.8 zooms (in this case one is and F/2-F/2.8!), an inexpensive stabilized macro, and a wider aperture portrait lens (85mm F/1.4) are enough to make me happy.
If I decide to go small, there are some nice "pancake" lenses starting at F/2 also.
