Phil Flash
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60mm -- a pretty useless focal length equivalent.
What next? Posting Tony and Chelsea Northrup links?
The minimum focusing distance of 7" is impressive.
Good looking lens. Wish this version were available for Nikon Z instead of the retro designed one.
This makes me want to take up fly fishing as a hobby. I need another way to relax. It also makes me think there is a market for a large-sensor (m43 or larger) "tough camera" that is waterproof at least to a certain mild depth. I just lost an old Fuji X100s due to a splash in Hawaii. Still works, but the on/off switch is very stiff and every now and then the shutter button sticks. We need a digital Nikonos. No housing. But a robust camera with a built in zoom and "big controls" to be used with gloved hands.
Nice. Now please make a 23mm 1.8 or faster (35mm equiv) or a 40mm equiv pancake. Then your Zfc will really sell like hotcakes.
NFT is a nifty way to part fools from their money.
Savviest: Panasonic .... Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time. Long time.
I have a Panasonic VCR I'm about to put on Craigslist for $40. Wish me luck.
I fail to see why anyone would put the money into this lens rather than saving up almost twice as much for what you really want -- an OEM 85mm 1.8 such as the Nikon Z. Yeah, yeah, I know this is F1.2, but that means your subject's eyes are in focus but their nose and ears are not.
The colonoscopy itself is not so bad. Get knocked out by anesthesia, wake up and it's over. It's the prep that is awful, which still has to be done with this device.
Love Gordon's commentary on cameras. Here's a guy who doesn't need a gimmick, or need to shout. I had the Oly C3030. 3mp. Still have some frames images from that one. Actually shot a friend's wedding with it, at his request!
So the solution to the design problem they have is to buy another of the company's products?
whumber: LOL, Northrup just posted his price prediction yesterday and was literally off by 100%.
I can't watch him.
That red button is so tacky. Is the guy who designed Pentax's K-01 (the ugly yellow camera) working at Canon now?
The Leica Man will be happy.
Einride: Nice review but unfair to not mention the perfect fit 28mm f2, 40mm f2 and 50mm f2. Sure they’re full frame but the 28 and 40mm lenses are as light or lighter than many apsc lenses and comparable in price.
And the Nikon 85/1.8S isn’t really any more expensive, large or heavy than the Fujifilm xf 90mm f2.
Sure, still not a lot of lenses, but it’s those two primes will cover A LOT of customers. Most amateurs buy a single prime and would be well served by either the 28 or 40mm.
Yeah, but Fuji offers a couple of actual pancake lenses (the Nikons are mostly "muffin-sized") that truly make for a compact package.
blse59: Since this has a plastic mount and no rubber gasket the price should be $200 or less. At $300 it's pure highway robbery and way overpriced. Remember nifty fifties with metal mounts, rubber gaskets, bigger apertures (f1.8) easily came in at under $200. This looks like a lot of greed and profit taking from Nikon.
Whelp, there's no pleasing some people.
Nikon always comes through. They aren't the first or the flashiest. But in the end, they deliver. Every time I switch from Nikon out of impatience, I regret it.
Impressive capability in a body that is just about as ugly as a Sony Betamax.
The only question is... black or silver?