Otus 85 on Hassy X1D: image circle big enough for the sensor?

ahsanford

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He apparently gets into the Otus is oversized argument here:

https://youtu.be/IDZMqQIhNDY?t=2m16s

If true, Sigma needs to start making immense oversized lenses for FF now that can drop into an adapter like this. Because if undercutting Canon is profitable, imagine how profitable undercutting MF lens folks would be...

- A
 
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Do bear in mind too that the X1D's sensor is pretty small by medium format standards. The Fuji GFX has the same size sensor and people have adapted Canon EF lenses to that.

A '35mm' lens projecting an image circle large enough to cover these smaller-than-6x4.5 'medium format' cameras isn't particularly special. The time to get excited will be when full 6x4.5 digital occurs and we can adapt lenses to that. (Though personally, as someone who grew up on large format and mostly used 6x7 for the last twenty years, even 6x4.5 doesn't get me too excited; 35mm sensor cameras can easily replicate the same look with f/1.4 and faster lenses.)
 
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