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sflxn wrote:
I own a DMF, FF, mirrorless, and smartphone. Sure, the DMF look is amazing, but for most of my shooting, I find my mirrorless is just more practical. When walking around on the street, I get very conscientious carrying my 35mm or MF DSLR. I'm really tired of so many people coming up and asking me if my H4D is a video camera or commenting that "wow, that is a real professional camera" when referring to my 70-200. I just want to take my photo as discretely as possible and move on. You'll find few sports photog using MF. More and more, you find more 35mm doing ad work, and as print dies, you're likely going to see even 35mm getting less and less share of ad work simply because the medium with which people get their media consumption is changing. It's the same reason why you see less and less large format. Other formats become good enough or the media consumption trend changes. This says NOTHING about the relative strength of one format vs the other. It's all about societal and market sales trend. Change is the one constant in this universe and is happening....Show more →
If you look at photography technology historically, this trend has been fact for a very long time. Imaging formats have progressively become smaller in line with market demands.
Regarding the ZM85/2: In my brief experience with it, I did not find it to be lacking contrast wide open. It's really an excellent, sharp lens. If it has a fault, it's the tendency to purple fringe quite strongly wide open.
I suspect in 5 years time when ~50MP sensors will be the norm, we're going to see a lot of $3000-5000 lenses from the mainstream manufacturers. Canon and Nikon are already heading there with their most recent releases. And Zeiss is also creeping upwards.
I wonder if this might then interest Leica? With their new factory soon coming online, perhaps they can produce their equivalent to a ZE/ZF line of lenses at a premium price point?
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