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I'm guessing the 16-28mm and 28-70mm are really being aimed at people who want more DOF control than standard F/2.8 zooms in that range but are prepared to forego F/1.4 for the convenience of a zoom. In that respect would these people really want an F/2 tele zoom? unlike wide/normal range your...

Honestly I think they'd be better off following Nikon releasing a lens like this on EF mount. Its already quite a large specialist lens so I don't think using an adapter is really that big of an issue for RF users compared to wide/normal primes.

I suspect the issue is that on a FF DSLR a 35mm F/1.4 is a lens with a wide appeal, a very good general purpose prime at a size that balances well on a lot of bodies. If you shift it up to F/1.2 then your probably increasing the size/price quite a bit and making it a more specialist lens with a...

Yeah the 7D line is always going to be appealing strongly to tele/action shooters who aren't going to care much about body size saving and are going to value the very highest level of AF tracking performance. I see it as one of the last lines likely to go mirrorless.

I wouldn't say there "quiet" pricey, there very pricey indeed relative to FF lenses whilst having some very limited specs. Makes me think the cheaper bodies are really more of a marketing tool sold at a loss(or a lower profit margin) that's clawed back with the lenses. I suspect if MF sales...

Honestly what I'm seeing from Canon and especially Nikon seems like the opposite, there really not very far if at all behind Sony and indeed their EVF implementation is being talked up as superior to Sony that doesn't offer full resolution when shooting, only in playback.

One thing to consider though is that EF-M and EF-S don't really take much development do they? I mean we've seen a few EF-M lenses released recently as the system is young but the kind of user its targeting doesn't tend to demand specialist lenses. Canon could very well carry on with the current...

I think the only line potentially under threat in the short term might be the 6D but even that seems a little unlikely to me. In reality I think even if mirrorless does come to dominate the camera market your talking several upgrade cycles away.

The problem all these companies have is that they lack an existing FF DSLR userbase to move across in the fashion of Canon and Nikon. Perhaps you could argue Panasonic are in a somewhat better position given their position in the video market? a FF version of the GH bodies appealing to high end...

Really though I would argue whats made recent efforts at major brand medium format less attractive than FF isn't the price of the body but rather than price of the lenses.

That's much less of an issue, I mean you can mount APSC lenses on FF Nikon DSLR's but theres not really a massive market for it due to the limited coverage. On the other hand you have people who shoot APSC that own FF lenses either due to their not being an APSC option(or it being no real...

From the look of it I suspect the Nikon 58mm 0.95 will weigh somewhere around 1 KG but then again that isn't a launch lens, there 50mm F/1.8 though weights 415g with what looks like performance you would associate with modern F/1.4 prime does seem like a good idea to me. Its larger than simple...

Which is why these seem like odd choices for initial lens releases, the 35mm F/1.8 yeah that looks like exactly the kind of lens a lot of buyers would be after(moreso than Sony's under speced 35mm F/2.8) but the 28-70mm F/2 and 50mm F/1.2? hardly lenses to show off size saving are they? even the...

I suspect in the short term you might well see Canon and Nikon looking for rather more targeted lens lineups in with their FF mirrorless lines rather than trying to directly replace typical DSLR use as Sony has done with its FE releases. I mean personally I would say a lot of the reason the...

Yes I'v never really felt we were looking at a similar kind of situation there however much certain people try and talk it up. Personally I think both Canon and Nikon would do well to look at the formers APSC mirrorless success. For me a sizeble part of that was in effectively targeting users...

I notice the "landscape" chosen was actually a cityscape with limited potential for movement, DPR generally do seem rather suspect for me when Sony products are involved these days. Given that there does seem to be a lot more potential for resolution increases in m43 optics it does seem a...

According to DXO the D500 has a similar kind of base ISO DR to the A7R II

You look at both the A7R II and the D500 and they seem to point to the same thing, low ISO DR(not just because of the D850's ISO 64 base either) is traded off for improved noise performance. You are of course talking relatively minor differences here but honestly Nikon to me seems like they...

That seems a bit of a strange one to me on a system that's still lacking a lot of core lenses. Price wise as well your talking close to the Canon 85mm F/1.2 and not that far off of the new Nikon 105mm F/1.4, even ignoring the loss of T-stop your still talking a lot less basic DOF control.

My guess is if we saw a FF EOS mount camera it would probably be below the 6D2 in price but if we see a FF EF-M camera or less likely a new mount it would likely be closer to the same price. Really though I think just focusing on body price is perhaps a mistake. A lot of Canon's recent success...