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Do you want a 10.5mm f2 prime?

Started Jul 22, 2015 | Polls thread
Dave Lively Senior Member • Posts: 1,938
Re: Do you want a 10.5mm f2 prime?
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I like the idea of a truly wide prime but a fast version would be so large, heavy and expensive one of the existing ultra-wide zooms would be a better choice for me.

I want a wide prime mostly for use outdoors when 12 is not wide enough so a slower lens would be fine for me. But it would have to offer some combination of lighter, faster, better optical quality or be less expensive than the Olympus 9-18 or Panasonic 7-14 before I would buy it. A focal length of 10.5 is too close to 12mm where we already have the Olympus 12mm.

Once you get below a certain focal length rectilinear lenses get larger and heavier as they get wider, not smaller. A 10.5mm f2 would be larger and heavier than the 12mm. And I doubt a pancake is possible with a lens that wide unless optical quality and speed were sacrificed. Like other posters I would really like a 9mm pancake with decent optical performance even it was slow but I doubt it is possible.

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