NathanUCF

“Absent AF joystick,” alright I’m out.

No vertical grip for one of the most infamously unwieldy cameras out there? Come on.

Looks good! I don't ever expect Fuji to compete with the big boys in sales figures but I'd like to think their success has played a major part in us getting these high spec APS-C bodies.

Although for people hoping for a Canon RP successor, this looks like Canon telling you to go **** yourself.

Unless they come out with terrible autofocus, this seems like no contest in favor of the Sigma. Only two exceptions I can think of are:
1. You care about the Fujifilm user experience and aesthetic more than value (which a lot of people do, nothing wrong with that)
2. You need a studio portrait lens and you're willing to buy used, I think the 56 1.2 goes for like $600-$650 used and that extra half a stop will absolutely be worth the price to some.

I’ve been waiting for Fuji to make a happy middle between the beautiful but slow 56mm f1.2 and the competent and fast 50mm f2 for ages so I’m very interested to see how this 56mm performs

Im used to seeing with these >f2.8 zooms stuff like “well it slightly misses focus often or it color fringes or whatever but the aperture!” For $1,900 it needs to just be fantastic, no “but the aperture!” excuses allowed.

Super happy that these are getting updated, the 56 probably needed it more than the 23 but I'm sure its in the pipeline. I can't blame those outside the Fujifilm ecosystem being baffled at the value proposition though

I don’t think it’s necessarily an issue of missing the audience as much as whenever a manufacturer for a young mount releasing anything that isn’t a trinity zoom you’ll surely find “where’s the 24-70 2.8/ 70-200 2.8?” in the comments

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Your method is definitely more precise but it’s less meaningful for the intended audience. If you say “equivalent to 75mm” I can immediately recall images I’ve taken at 70 and images I’ve seen elsewhere taken at 70. “31.6 degrees” means nothing to me and would just lead to me googling what FF focal length that implies.

Matty, you have a fair point that it’s cheaper than most 85mm f1.4s, but the Sigma 85mm f1.4 was considered by reviewers to be better than the G Master in almost every way and it’s available to buy in almost every store that sells the G Master, so I don’t see why it doesn’t “count” other than because it’s existence is inconvenient for your argument.

Nothing's been announced recently, and the Youtube algorithm will stomp them into the ground if they just don't upload for two weeks.

I wish this competed with the new G Master more but this design was probably already completed by the time the G Master was announced. It seems fairly priced for its trade offs.

I would have preferred a 1.4 for $500 less but this looks like a great lens to look forward to some day.

The stitched faux leather accent tag in the exact same shape on the exact same place on the bag, holy ****. Thankfully Amazon didn’t copy the Capture Clip attachment points so PD still has that to attract buyers.

I’ll probably never own it but it’s awesome that something like this even exists. Congratulations to the engineers at Sony.

I agree with you. Also made me think of my favorite case of that. The Sony RX100 VII is oddly marketed as having 20.1MP instead of just 20MP, especially since the largest file it can produce is 19.96 MP. I have no problem with that being rounded up to 20 for advertising purposes, but 20.1?

I think you misread, that sentence was referring to third party adapters for adapting Nikon F lenses onto the Sony E mount.

To clarify preclude means “prevent from happening,” I meant that the affordability of the lens would prevent people from asking “at that price why not just go full frame,” my apologies for any confusion.

Awesome lens for the crop sensor market and $800 is a good price that precludes questions of “if you’re going to spend that much then why not just go full frame?”