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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Voigtländer Nokton Vintage Line 35/1.5 VM I & II and Nikon Z Apo-Lanthar 65/2 | |
philip_pj wrote:
'Long holidays for CV in terms of e-mount offerings.'
It looks more like the long (and unspoken) goodbye, as seen in the Zeiss weather vane modality. Either way, transparency is not a strong point, or even a thing at all. Recall that Sony was the only game in mirrorless town when Cosina got serious in 2017. Despite Sony inviting off-brand lens producers back then, Nikon is really the traditional SLR manual focus brand, of those left standing.
It's likely that new releases of the only full frame cross-brand MF maker will soon be directed their way, perhaps exclusively. Sony users might best be 'glass half full' on what they have received, and 'glass half empty' for the future.
If so, a small but serious set of users will continue to migrate to Nikon over time, and E-Z adapters are available for their CV-E lenses. It won't work in reverse, you can't turn an FFD of 16mm into an FFD of 18mm. Cosina might have found a better mass market home, going forward. Their longer-than-50mm portrait/telephoto lens cupboard is still bare, the 75mm (an M lens) excepted. They are a capricious firm....Show more →
Based on lens sales info for Japan, Cosina's FF Z-mount lenses are not really outselling their Sony counterparts and the Sony versions were peaking much higher in the charts when they were new and fresh. Even now the E-mount versions are still holding their own. I wouldn't expect Cosina to move towards Nikon Z exclusivity based on that, but I think they want to be an early mover in Z-mount 3rd party lenses and try to maximize their sales while there is not yet as much competition, so they may be continuing to close the gaps between their E-mount and Z-mount FF offerings for a while now. So far they have been picking their E-mount all time best-sellers for Z-mount FF first and I'm curious where they will go from there.
I think in the future when they are ready to bring out an entirely new mirrorless FF lens they'd bring it out in both mounts.
Sadly they don't seem to put much stock on covering the 28mm FL for mirrorless, which is the one I'm personally missing in their mirrorless lineup most.
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