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| p.2 #1 · p.2 #1 · 2 new Z lenses tonight ... 180-600 and 70-180 | |
woodstork wrote:
This is an interesting lens to speculate. I’d bet against a Z 200-600 or 180-600 being a rebadged Tamron. Nikon will likely have a nice organic design of their own genesis for what could end up being their best selling wildlife lens. The weird thing is why is this not going to be S-Line? What trade offs are they making to keep cost down?
It's better that it isn't an S lens I think. The average buyer of this lens is the same as the existing F mount 200-500. You get the same optical quality as if it were an S lens (look how good the 200-500 is), but with slightly cheaper build quality (might help keep weight down too), no OLED screen, fewer or zero L-Fn buttons, fewer fancy lens coatings, and no custom control ring. It's almost guaranteed to be a F6.3 lens as well to help keep size/weight down and an S-line design would likely try for a slightly wider maximum aperture and a significantly higher price tag. If it were an S lens, there would still be no affordable native mount "super zoom" option available either through Nikon or a third party, which I don't think would be a good thing either.
The Z100-400 is the best 100-400 out there but it's quite expensive - I would think the 200-600 would be even more expensive than that if it got the full "S" treatment. Who knows, maybe Nikon will surprise us, but it's very likely to be a non-S, variable aperture or fixed F6.3 maximum, internal zoom, and nearly identical to the size of the Sony 200-600. So far most of Nikon's tele lenses have been offering huge value propositions exceeding most expectations, so hopefully this one is no different.
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