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Holger wrote:
What about moisture resistance, dust, etc?
What would people gain with such an adapter if already owing an A7riii? Buy an additional Nikon Z, what for?
I think the reason to buy and Nikon Z is if you decided to move away from Sony but wanted to still use some E mount glass. The Nikon Z system is interesting to me for some of the glass that will perform better on it than a Sony. For example, I really like the Nikon 300 f/4 PF and the 500 f/5.6 PF and they are much more easily adapted to Nikon Z and will like perform better on it than with the Commlite adapter on the Sony E mount. For me I also would like that my Milvus lenses in F mount would be adapted with full EXIF. I would hate to leave some Sony E mount lenses behind, however. I think that is reason to hope that a Loxia 85 f/2.4 would work pretty well on the Nikon Z and that is one of my favorite lenses. I would also love it if the Loxia 21, 25, and Voigtlander 40 f/1.2 worked well, but I am less sure they won't see a performance degradation.
For me it is an interesting question whether the Nikon Z sensor stack performs better with Leica M mount lenses or Sony E mount lenses. Consider a couple of examples: how does the Leica M 21 f/3.4 Asph work? How about the Lox 21 f/2.8? The Voigtlander 21 f/3.4? Do they all work pretty well? If they do you get more choice with the Nikon. Do none of them work very well? Then the Nikon's sensor stack is in a no-man's anti-goldilocks zone which makes the camera pretty undesirable to me. My guess is that it is somewhere between these extremes and I am very interested in just where it lands. I am not surprised there is an adapter that let's it mount at least some E mount lenses, but the big question isn't answered yet: how do those lenses perform on that camera? Depending on the answer to that question there either could be a compelling reason for me to get this camera and move away from Sony or not reason at all.
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