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Lack of up to date pancakes in M43?

Started Feb 9, 2020 | Discussions thread
cba_melbourne
cba_melbourne Veteran Member • Posts: 5,850
Re: M43 pancakes - WR updates needed
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Dostoy wrote:

I think the timing is right now for Olympus and Panasonic to follow Fujifilm's lead in releasing small weather-resistant primes. If some of these were pancake design, that would be ever better.

This is especially the case now that the just-released Fujifilm X100V is weather resistant (once the adaptor ring and protector filter is attached).

So, for just US$129 the not weathersealed X100V suddenly becomes weathersealed.

Because the only not weathersealed part of that camera/lens is.... the front lens element?

Sounds to me like a well devised money grab. Put all seals in bare one - then charge a fortune to retrofit it.

They could just as well have drilled a hole in the camera body, then charge for the special rubber plug to seal it - no wait, customers could just tape it shut. A filter with adapter makes sure its not so easy to do it diy for free.... Camera makers must be really desperate for money to resort to such methods.

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