GatanoII

I would be awesome to have all the needed electronics in a modern piece of glass, the price point is not made just by the single components inside (and the enginering), if you sell much more glass...

"But yes, it would be awesome to have AF, electronic aperture control, and automatic EXIF data recording."

That's my point, it should be standard for lenses made in 2019... using new lenses...

"Photographic results matter" it's valid for any photograper and so it's pointless to repeat.

A piece of glass made in 2019 without any electronic logic is limited today, can be used as it...

Adapting old lenses makes much much more sense ... I have a modern camera I want to use old glass on it, that's normal ... but in 2019, instead, making "new" lenses without any electronics is a...

Zenit announces a ridiculously old design concept lens, fully manual without any electronics inside in 2019! but it's fast and not being a Leica it's not that much expensive :)

LOL, if you play the equivalent game you need to convert everything, the equivalent FF is a 50mm F2.2

yes

Just speculating, Nikon FF mirrorless mount resembles an upside down  FF Canon mount, this makes me think ;) Today they have zero market share in the FF mirrorless  world ( but they are coming and ...

I have the S9+ with the Samsung sensor (but who cares, I could also be happy with the Sony sensor) , the only thing I can easily be sure is that the Samsung Dram is far superior (much more compact...

The "film/analog" news are here to track the death (when?) of the previous technology ;)