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Low-tide sunset
I really respect the work of the landscape photogs because it usually involves a lot of hassle getting to the obscure locations at unearthly hours, you risk damage to gear and injury to self over jagged and slippery rocks for instance.
I ought to shoot more, have only been scratching at the surface of this genre thus far.
So much anticipation over the upcoming Nikon FF mirrorless!
Nikon’s FF mirrorless competitive advantage over others will be the “NOCT” f0.95 standard focal length Primes and supertele PF lenses.
My wish for the Nikon FF mirrorless given that I shoot both Nikon and Sony:
1) Good DSLR to mirrorless adapter allowing outputs from Nikon G lenses including zooms to be as good as those I can get out of equivalent DSLRs.
2) Quality Primes in 18mm f2.8 and 35mm f1.8 as good as the AF-S 24mm f1.8 G. Maybe a little further along a 15mm f4.0 Prime that can use screw-on filters. It’s clear that Nikon will update their lenses under their new mirrorless mount in their 35mm, 50mm, 85mm and 135mm Primes.
3) AF 58mm f0.95
Leica’s legendary 50mm f0.95 Noctilux goes for $11k, hopefully Nikon’s version will be under $3k and sharp wide open 😂!
4) 600mm f5.6 PF VR.
Under the existing Sony mirrorless system;
1) The precedence in the Sony LA-EA4 adapter for Sony A mount lenses on E mount bodies has unfortunately been largely suboptimal.
2) In the Sony E mount, Batis 18mm f2.8 exists but like most Batis lenses, it’s overpriced plus it’s not materially better than the FE16-35mm f2.8 GM. Also Voigtländer has a manual focus E mount 15mm f4.5 but subsequently the FE 12-24mm f4.0 G surpassed its quality. There is no quality fast reliable native 35mm solution currently for Sony.
3) Sony E mount has no native AF f0.95 lenses, closest is the manual focus Voigtländer FE 40mm f1.2, lovely lens but I prefer AF for such shallow DOF.
4) Fresnel superteles does not exist in the Sony system at the moment however the 15 year older Nikon AF-S 300mm f4.0 D is optically superior to the 300mm f4.0 PF VR released in 2015 and I sold this PF lens off when it was clear to me that it was inferior to my FE 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 GM. A Nikon 600mm f5.6 PF VR will pair well with my Sony 100-400mm GM!
I think that AF 58mm f0.95 is what Nikon needs to draw attention to their FF mirrorless and I might even buy this ahead of their mirrorless camera!
With CaNikon's FF mirrorless on the way, it won't be long for Sony to finally bring out their long rumored A9R or whatever it'll be called, that will be the body to get!
Postscript 2021
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That Sony A9R mentioned 2 years ago has finally materialized in the form of the A1 (α1)!
Low-tide sunset
I really respect the work of the landscape photogs because it usually involves a lot of hassle getting to the obscure locations at unearthly hours, you risk damage to gear and injury to self over jagged and slippery rocks for instance.
I ought to shoot more, have only been scratching at the surface of this genre thus far.
So much anticipation over the upcoming Nikon FF mirrorless!
Nikon’s FF mirrorless competitive advantage over others will be the “NOCT” f0.95 standard focal length Primes and supertele PF lenses.
My wish for the Nikon FF mirrorless given that I shoot both Nikon and Sony:
1) Good DSLR to mirrorless adapter allowing outputs from Nikon G lenses including zooms to be as good as those I can get out of equivalent DSLRs.
2) Quality Primes in 18mm f2.8 and 35mm f1.8 as good as the AF-S 24mm f1.8 G. Maybe a little further along a 15mm f4.0 Prime that can use screw-on filters. It’s clear that Nikon will update their lenses under their new mirrorless mount in their 35mm, 50mm, 85mm and 135mm Primes.
3) AF 58mm f0.95
Leica’s legendary 50mm f0.95 Noctilux goes for $11k, hopefully Nikon’s version will be under $3k and sharp wide open 😂!
4) 600mm f5.6 PF VR.
Under the existing Sony mirrorless system;
1) The precedence in the Sony LA-EA4 adapter for Sony A mount lenses on E mount bodies has unfortunately been largely suboptimal.
2) In the Sony E mount, Batis 18mm f2.8 exists but like most Batis lenses, it’s overpriced plus it’s not materially better than the FE16-35mm f2.8 GM. Also Voigtländer has a manual focus E mount 15mm f4.5 but subsequently the FE 12-24mm f4.0 G surpassed its quality. There is no quality fast reliable native 35mm solution currently for Sony.
3) Sony E mount has no native AF f0.95 lenses, closest is the manual focus Voigtländer FE 40mm f1.2, lovely lens but I prefer AF for such shallow DOF.
4) Fresnel superteles does not exist in the Sony system at the moment however the 15 year older Nikon AF-S 300mm f4.0 D is optically superior to the 300mm f4.0 PF VR released in 2015 and I sold this PF lens off when it was clear to me that it was inferior to my FE 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 GM. A Nikon 600mm f5.6 PF VR will pair well with my Sony 100-400mm GM!
I think that AF 58mm f0.95 is what Nikon needs to draw attention to their FF mirrorless and I might even buy this ahead of their mirrorless camera!
With CaNikon's FF mirrorless on the way, it won't be long for Sony to finally bring out their long rumored A9R or whatever it'll be called, that will be the body to get!
Postscript 2021
==============
That Sony A9R mentioned 2 years ago has finally materialized in the form of the A1 (α1)!