genji wrote: Fred Miranda wrote:
After the release of the vanilla FE 35/1.8, I find it difficult for Sony to come up with a 35mm GM anytime soon.
Perhaps it will come as a 40mm lens instead. (24, 40, 85, 135 GM line)
The current popularity of 40mm lenses continues to amaze me. 40mm lenses were available 10 years ago, such as the Olympus Zuiko OM 40/2, the M-mount CV Nokton 40/1.4, and the CV Ultron SL & SL II 40/2 lenses for DSLRs but they appealed to a relatively small niche of enthusiasts, many of whom I suspect had read Mike Johnston’s 2008 essay Why 40mm? (which persuaded me to buy an Ultron 40/2 to use on my Nikon D700).
Yet it doesn’t seem all that long ago that the most common response to any mention of a 40mm lens was “What kind of weird focal length is that?” or “It’s neither fish nor fowl!”. Recently, however, both M and FE versions of the CV Nokton 40/1.2 have been overwhelmingly popular with FM members—more so than any other lens I can recall since I joined in early 2008. And since the Nokton release we’ve had the Batis 40/2 and the Sigma 40/1.4 plus the soon to be released Sigma 40/2.8. What happened?
The Sigma is a 45/2.8, not 40/2.8. Samyanf recently introduced their 45/1.8, so it seems that even 45mm reappears.
Jul 25, 2019 at 02:49 AM
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