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I noticed the more punchy colors too, I think in part at least it's the Sony A1. I read not too long ago they improved the colors on it compared to their previous cameras.

Thanks, keep smoking what you're smoking, must be good stuff.

I already have a pretty good indication from a 5 minute review of available 50mm autofocus lenses on the market today. You have no clue at all.

I'm still waiting for any of your data. All you come up with is vague statements with no backup, because you haven't actually any idea what the costs involved are.

Your statements are false, it's not the same as saying you're a liar, you can be unknowing for instance. Canon etc show autofocus is cheap. For a 50mm prime it's not contributing over the $50-$150...

Roland, I actually don't disagree with the point your making, I never did, but it is perhaps subtly but very different from the point Melindra is making. Sure, small companies cannot roll over a...

Roland - If saying autofocus is not expensive is rude, so be it, I'll gladly wear that crown. At least I can appreciate a company making the effort of creating lenses for us and not bash them with...

Learned a new color name today! In what image(s) does the puce manifest itself?

No, let me remind you that you said because it was manual focus, the price wasn't justified. Manual focus has extremely little to do with the pricing. You keep twisting and turning, but your...

Most definitely invalidated every of your arguments. And every time you come up with something else completely unrelated.

I think it's great this company provides more flavors and options to...

Just mentioning a massive tech company to invalidate your argument. Here's another one that's fabless: Nvidia.

"Fab-less", another pearl of wisdom. You know Apple is fab-less?

I'm not really interested in this lens, but not because it is fab-less.

Product cost is everything. For this kind of portrait lens nobody is going to need super advanced autofocus. If you're going to need autofocus on this lens, it can be just some $50 tech from...

Great colors!

Very sharp and contrasty looking images, and the colors really pop, the yellows, oranges, reds and greens are really deep.

Also consider the Leica D-Lux 7, it's a really nice camera with a great zoom lens and multi-aspect sensor.

I'm not missing it at all, it's just that you have a distorted view of what autofocus costs. There are manual focus 50mm lenses that cost 20x that of the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM.

A Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM with their most advanced focus motors costs just USD 399. So maybe they are slightly more costly, but I doubt it's even USD 100 for the auto focusing. The glass however...

@Reza S Moghadam

1. Not really, the TL lenses are extremely sharp, both primes and zooms. And they're priced rather competitively. I've tried Fuji aps-c, but they don't even come close.

2. You...

It's just supply and demand, there's enough demand for them to be able to raise the prices. If they balance supply and demand at their price level, their products are therefore by definition not...