They're pretty much made every lens in the very wide to normal to portrait range. The only exception would be a super speed normal and macro. But they have nothing truly telephoto which I kind of found hard to believe until I looked it up. Now that the X2DII has really great AF, it could be a pretty rad wild life camera. Heading to Alaska next summer, hoping to see some progress here.
If you can find an HC 300/4.5 with an orange dot (an orange square in front of the branding on the lens to the right of the distance scale) that has FW version 19.1.0, apparently you can get AF and IBIS with the Hasselblad adapter. I haven't used the lens on the X bodies, just the H3D 50 and H5D 60, but the AF was decently fast. Resolution's good and very even across the frame. It's an option, if you get desperate, but hopefully they've got a better, smaller, lighter option coming.
I am confident that they have a road map. They just haven’t shared it with you.😁
With the addition of legit AF-C, they also created a problem of sorts for their older lenses that cannot benefit from it. One route might be to re-issue some of those with motors that can keep up. They also have their E line, which currently only includes zooms. They might be envisioning a couple key E primes for boutique applications. There is no lens that renders like the Zeiss 110/2 from true MF film bodies. I could imagine many portrait photographers would swarm to a lens that could render similarly on these sensors. That would likely need to be much wider aperture than the 90V and might be more like 65mm. The Mitakon 65/1.4 is about the closest to that austere rendering that I have seen.
Tele lenses would be welcome and not just for wildlife. A long lens in the 100-300mm equivalent range is a real asset for landscape work.
I’m pretty confident the X2D2 still wouldn’t be a great wildlife camera with a 500mm available. 1/2000th is barely into stopping birds and fast moving wildlife. Cameras with fast read sensors are vastly more suitable.
Gordon
p.s. I have the GFX 500mm with TC and wouldn’t pick that over my A1ii anytime except for the odd animal portrait.
Grenache wrote:
Tele lenses would be welcome and not just for wildlife. A long lens in the 100-300mm equivalent range is a real asset for landscape work.
I'd snap up a 150/4 (or slower) P lens if they could manage to shock me with the performance/price/size and weight ratios like they've done with the 45P. Such a killer little landscaper.
flash wrote:
I’m pretty confident the X2D2 still wouldn’t be a great wildlife camera with a 500mm available. 1/2000th is barely into stopping birds and fast moving wildlife. Cameras with fast read sensors are vastly more suitable.
Gordon
p.s. I have the GFX 500mm with TC and wouldn’t pick that over my A1ii anytime except for the odd animal portrait.
I won't argue there are better choices all-around choices, but some of my favorite wildlife photography was done with medium format or larger film. Everything's situational, right?
