Are you doing curls with your lenses lately? Is your photo pack dragging you down hills? Or is all the fuss about the weight of today's lenses just for wusses? After a discussion of gear weight elsewhere, I saw Bryan's review of the Sigma Art where he cleverly provided the build data for many 50mm lenses, along with dates of manufacture. Dropping them into a scatter plot yielded the attached chart.
At least this confirms what we would suspect. None of the lenses in his review built prior to the year 2000 weigh more than 400 grams, while 6/10 of those after do. There are a few notable lenses missing, and this only covers 50mm, but the data here was handy so I nabbed it.
So what do folks think? Is smaller and lighter better for you? Or do you prefer higher quality and damn the pounds? Have you swapped down to a mirrorless ILC, or would you own and use both ILCs and SLRs?
At least this confirms what we would suspect. None of the lenses in his review built prior to the year 2000 weigh more than 400 grams, while 6/10 of those after do. There are a few notable lenses missing, and this only covers 50mm, but the data here was handy so I nabbed it.
So what do folks think? Is smaller and lighter better for you? Or do you prefer higher quality and damn the pounds? Have you swapped down to a mirrorless ILC, or would you own and use both ILCs and SLRs?