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"With 40 mp you can easily crop 50mm out of the wide lens :)"

Cropping half of the resolution. Not much an issue with true 40MP of resolution/information, but I doubt we will have this here.

"most of mine are either wide or long"

If I correctly recall our university camera club recommendation (thirty years ago!): Wide-angle (28-35mm) first, then a slight (portrait) telephoto...

IMO, a "normal" focal length lens is missing. Too much of a gap between 27mm and 80mm.

"can't operate large sensors as quickly as smaller ones (due to decreased read out rate)"

The current PhaseOne IQ4 digital back (IMX411 sensor) has a read-out speed of only two frames per second.

"price to image quality ratio is poor"

Probably not much worse than the just released PhaseOne XT camera (about $55K).

"INSTANTLY fell in love with that ultrawide! I cannot stress that enough! It was an epiphany!"

Any way to post a few images? Have taken quite a few panoramas I am quite happy with, so I am looking...

"photographic lens ... should conspicuously be labeled with their FOVs next to their actual focal lengths. FOV makes format (sensor size) irrelevant"

It’s not quite so easy. For example, my 450mm...

For decades, the Nikon 13mm f/5.6 was the shortest focal length (rectangular, non-fisheye) lens available. It was regarded as a very specialized lens of being only of limited general use (only a...

Strictly speaking "telephoto" refers to the lens construction, not to focal length. Since iPhone’s 52mm is very compact, it may be of a telephoto design.
A "normal" lens is generally referred to...

Strictly speaking "telephoto" refers to the lens construction, not to the focal length.
It was just that at one stage virtually all long focal length lenses used a telephoto design in order to...

Just see the ongoing "discussion" of the slowness of firmware development for the IQ4 PhaseOne.

I wholeheartedly agree that the iPhone is a bargain for what it does. If you just look at the iPhone Pro as a camera, not as a smartphone, and see what it does compared to other cameras in its...

"argues that the original CFV wasn’t expensive – it was $15,000!"

Then it was the least expensive way to get an O.K. sized CMOS sensor on back of a technical camera.

Wonder whether a "full-frame" 645 sensor (56x42mm) would fit the GFX 100 and be within cone of lens coverage, and if, whether this is the ultimate goal by Fuji.