Please can we have a Compact / Point & Shoot section? There are a lot of questions about the various products available, on these forums, but nowhere for anyone to provide a good review etc.
I could'nt care less about reviews of modern AF lenses as I dont use any AF lenses at all and dont plan to use any in the near future and I especially dont care about reviews of zoom lenses as I dont and wont use any.
I, and I suspect many others, would like to see reviews of hugely popular manual focus prime lenses that are still very much in common usage (especially amongst FM forums members ), despite being out of production for several decades in some cases.
Here are some popular and excellent manual focus lenses I would like to see reviewed, and compared perhaps even compared for sharpness and bokeh quality to more modern, supposedly superior but often inferior, AF counterparts (If there are any AF counterparts that is):
Tamron SP 17mm f3.5 (Adaptall)
Olympus Zuiko 18mm f3.5 (OM)
Leica 19mm f2.8 Emarit R
Carl Zeiss 21mm f2.8 Distagon T*
Carl Zeiss 25mm f2.8 Distagon T*
Carl Zeiss 28mm f2.8 Distagon T*
Carl Zeiss 28mm f2.0 Distagon T* ("Hollywood")
Nikon 35mm f1.4 Ai-S
Canon FL 55mm f1.2
Canon FD 55mm f1.2 S.S.C Aspherical
Nikon Micro Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Ai-S
Minolta Rokkor 58mm f1.2
Canon FD 85mm f1.2 L
Carl Zeiss 85mm f1.4 Planar T*
Carl Zeiss 85mm f1.2 Planar T*
Nikon 105mm f2.5 Ai-S
Carl Zeiss Jena 135mm f3.5 Sonnar
Carl Zeiss Jena 180mm f2.8 ("Olympic") Sonnar
Nikon 180mm f2.8 Ai-S
Nikon Micro Nikkor 200mm f4 ED IF Ai-S
Tamron SP 300mm f2.8 LD IF (60B Adaptall model)
If, like me, your a manual focus lens fan, feel free to add any more you would like to see reviewed.
Carl Zeiss 35 f:2.0 Distagon T*
Carl Zeiss 50 f:1.4 Planar T*
Those are current in ZE/ZF/ZK form for Canon, Nikon, Pentax DSLRs. Lenses no longer in production are another matter IMHO, because the variety is potentially huge.
The Nikon 16-85 f/3.5-5.6 AF-S lens has been on the market for about two years and has not been included in the reviews.
This is a very popular, well regarded lens, and I see in the forums that I am not the only reader that uses and likes this fine, relatively inexpensive lens, and I sincerely request that it be added.
Still missing the Canon EF-S 15-85, even though it was on the first big list that someone posted. (I think the EF-S 18-135 and 18-200 are also missing)
this is sooo disapponting, as soon a new canon lens comes out it goes straight to the FM section, I.E. Canon 70-200 IS II, but still no Nikkor 70-200 VR II, despite it came out many months ago ...
The above regarding the 15-85 and 18-135 is a strange exception, because Canon lenses always pops up very quickly in the relative section, but you can wait forever before the new Nikon stuff are in place ...
You the man!
Don't mind me though, I'm just impatient b/c I'm about to purchase one. 