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Focus sound of the new XF 27 WR very loud?

Started Jun 15, 2021 | Questions thread
Truman Prevatt
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Re: Focus sound of the new XF 27 WR very loud?

Robmas4229 wrote:

I suppose there's other 40mm (EQ) pancakes out there but by the time you add an adapter it isn't a pancake anymore.

Exactly.  to quote Milton Friedman, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." That more true in engineering than economics.

The top three prime design criteria for this lens was small, small and high quality.  The pancake design puts constraints in other areas.   It's pretty simple.  Personally this lens is on my list to pick up as 40 mm (135) with that IQ and that small is a hard combination to pass up that is if one ever shows up in Amazon or B&H again.   I sincerely doubt that I would be willing to give up those advantages because of the sound focusing is.

Hell if it is that bad I put on competitive shooting headset.  It can't be any louder than my pistol.  

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