Alan53

Hope you paid the bear for using her photograph (he he, as he stirs the pot and retreats from the scene...)

There was a later Pentacon branded version (still 30mm f3.5), and there was also a Pentacon 29mm – a different lens.
I had a Lydith in the 1970s for my first SLR (an M42 screw mount Mamiya). It was...

This seems to shadow the Canon offering very closely, even the slow aperture and plastic mount. Cost cutting will result in some deficiencies. For example, Canon’s version is quite sharp, but very...

“It's not mumbo jumbo, it's how lenses work”, but it’s not how photographers work.

When fashion photographers were still using 2¼” square TLRs, and David Bailey turned to 35mm, do you think he...

I understand the lens hood doubles as a filter adapter

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
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Call me but lens, ….
Henceforth I never will be Takumar.

Didn’t Sony open up the E mount protocols/usage free to all a few years back? Wouldn’t be too difficult for Fujifilm to make E mount versions then?
Fairly certain it won’t happen now though.

Just like the Russians didn’t copy Concorde?? Doesn’t need to be identical to be copied.

The 5000 series has become the serious entry level option into the Nikon range. Much as I would like to see the upgrades you mention, or a bigger, better prism VF, the chances would seem somewhere...

Not a replacement but a cheaper down market version. The X-A3 hasn’t hit the market yet- some rumors speak of manufacturing problems as the reason for the delay.

Fuji are still in the on-going process of uprating their better cameras to the 24MP sensors. This is the lowest spec model from the last generation, driven down to lower spec and cheaper...

First used "family" camera: Kodak Brownie (can’t remember the model number – took 120 film held in a curved back)
First camera: Mamiya 1000DTL – 35mm SLR with M42 mount
First digital camera:...

Slight upgrades, closely following in time at increasing prices- seems to be the current evolution of the Sony business model for their camera ranges.

While there a few disappointing aspects to the M5 (particularly after the specific promise of a serious mirrorless coming), does anyone else find the lens bayonet mounts an issue?

I can see that...

Not sure which dimension is incorrect in your chart, but if lens has 62mm filter thread it is impossible for the diameter of the lens to be 62mm, it would need to be at least 2 or 3mm greater.