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In general, CV certainly don't make lenses for Sony alone. They make variants of lenses so they can sell to both Leica M users and (sometimes) Sony users, in that order of priority. So if you hanker for a Sony 90mm, best to look at the M segment too.
To have appeal to the Leica M base, it would have to be f2. F2.8 will see it largely ignored, as a kind of poor man's knock-off of the 90/2.8 Elmarit and Summarits. They have been there before with slow 90mm lenses of course (DSLR), and those lenses are no longer for sale.
Lens speed is key to this market segment. As the shiny Leica f2 lenses roll off the design table to the assembly line, the chief is telling everyone: 'why stop down?'. And Leica offers many portrait length choices over 50mm, too many to list, in both M (and now two more in SL).
CV would be wasting their time on a slow 90mm for these people, especialy as they already sell a light 75mm at f1.5. Of the current 20 VM lenses, just one is longer than 50mm. Not very confidence inspiring!
Of the current 14 listed VE lenses, only two heavy macros are longer than 50mm. You might draw the conclusion that they have not shown much interest in portrait/general lenses. So temper those expectations accordingly, CV are literally non-performers here.
CV have just two highly favoured 'focal length sub-ranges' for both M and E: ultra-super wide angles: 10mm to 21mm; and the dreaded 'middle of the range': 35mm-50mm. The 28mm for M, a solitary 75mm and the afore-mentioned macros are the only exceptions. The macros aren't going to go so good on M cameras, and the other two are specifically M lenses.
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