There's quite a few of their mirrorless lenses I'd love to try out, they definitely aren't the Tamron of yesteryear.
Tells us that Nikon skipped the R&D and offers up the old stepping motor at above what you can buy the Sony version for.Probably a good margin and will be a F2.8 kit with some bodies(and probably add 1000).
Not that soon. For now it seems the possibility is there, but only after Sony has them for a while now.
Sony does not let Nikon have their sensors they sell them. Sony Semiconductor Solutions while obviously owned at the corporate level by the Sony conglomeration is run as an separate entity .If Sony Semiconductor Solutions wish to make money { I assume they do
} Then selling sensors to anyone who will pay for them is sound business. Why? The Z 24-70 2.8 is superior to both. In every way. Rebadging the G2 won’t make it the same price as the G1. It’ll be more expensive. At which point just get the 24-70. Nikon wants to give options, but ultimately they want you, me, anyone to use their top end.
More important to me than just how it happened is that it happened at all. Bring on the whole Tamron f/2.8 budget trio!
I can buy the Tamron 28-75/2.8 RXD grey market new for $700 so I'm sure Nikon are getting a really big margin on it.
Are you just speculating or this a real thing? There’s an exclusivity window to lenses?
Maybe? Could be the start of something or this could be just a one-off and either they can always not give Nikon any more lens design or Nikon chose not to licence any more Tamron designs. Various factors can come into play, seeing what other lenses Nikon has and whether this 28-75 takes off and makes them enough money and worthwhile for their effort.
And the 17-35/2-2.8 possibly following the 35-150/2-2.8 in 2022
Which would make perfect sense imho. Many people say that it is hard to tell the difference between 24-70 and 24-200 in the overlapping range. OK, the latter is slower, but the former isn't particularly fast either.
