Re: AF-S NIKKOR 120-300mm f/2.8E FL ED SR VR is coming
wjmeyer wrote: CrazyCanuk wrote: Thern wrote:
Unique is certainly good if the targetted userbase wants that, one can even ask more money then.
At this very moment there's still a very large userbase not interested in MILC at all, so when Nikon keeps developing and innovating on the DSLR plus F-mount ,which they said they will and looking at these announcements do, a lot of these people will keep using their obsolete DSLRs.
MILC is A future not THE future and my guess is it will be for a long time to come despite 'everybody in the know' is telling us otherwise.
Well said.
Also, the new Z-Mount really only offers measurable physical advantages for Nikkor optics at the widest focal lengths up only to standard focal lengths. The Z-Mount actually confers no advantage to super-telephoto optics. This gives Nikon the incentive only to concentrate Z-Mount transitions at the wider/standard focal lengths. There really is no reason to change the mount at super-telephoto lengths.
This is especially true, given that there are thousands of F-Mount shooters for every one Z-Mount shooter. Nikon would be cutting off too many potential buyers by making this lens in only Z-Mount.
With the seamless operation of the FTZ Adapter, new super telephoto lenses in the F-Mount can be purchased by all interested Nikon users, rather than a very few.
An excellent point; however, for those who might see the 120-300 as a candidate for use with TC, the Z mount with FTZ adapter ads yet another connection so you'd have Z Body > FTZ > TC > Lens which may not be the ideal situation, but certainly usable.
Yup! that's one of the reasons why I said in the other thread it's a pity Nikon didn't opt for an inbuilt TC.
I love the added versatility, it's more than using a TC, no need to debate wether or not to mount it before going out, no fiddling in the field, no question where to store it, no screws coming loose, no possible play aso.
It may be a very very expensive TC but in my opinion it's worth every cent.
Efacc wrote:
I wonder if it's possible to make an FTZ teleconverter to reduce one of those connections
Should be possible at a price, but if then it would be a stellar idea to make that TC flickable at an even much higher price.
Sep 05, 2019 at 10:05 AM
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