sonyalpharumors

Hope the high performance standart G will come fast at the beginning aof 2012 for the NEX 7!

I really only need two or three pancakes, the rest of the lineup can be large lenses for all I care. My wishlist:

16mm f/2.8 (a new sharper version)
30mm f/2 (this should be priority #1)
60mm f/2

All G grade if possible.

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If you look at lenses in general, as you get farther from 35-50, the lenses get bigger, as the lenses get faster, they also get bigger. The sweet spot is generally in the 35-50 range at around f2-2.8.

Sony – please make a 35 f/2 pancake and a 50 f/2 pancake, and I promise to buy it.

Thanks
Jonathan

Looking at the Samsung NX200 and Nex-5n side by side, there doesn’t seem to be a reason why Sony couldn’t make 20mm f/2.8 and 30mm f/2 pancakes too.

I’m doubtful about a 50/2 or 60/2 pancake, seeing how big the 50/1.8 is.

I’ll believe when I see it, not the part about the pancakes, but the part about Sony listening to their customers. If they are really listening, those pancakes will have respectfully fast apertures as well!

24 mm pancake, even if f2.8 !

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I just want to see a happy medium – not necessarily pancakes (with their inherent optical limitations), but small, reasonably fast primes (my Zuiko 38mm f1.8 Pen lens is just right) without any frills – no oss, sam focusing, etc. I just want to take pictures, not video.

Of course, that would all be much easier if some marketing nit-wit hadn’t insisted on the “thinnest mirrorless camera” tagline. A little more room between the sensor and the mount would have made a huge difference for the optical engineers and would have given all of us a smaller package overall.

ZM series + Sonnar HFT 40/2.8 & Planar HFT 80/2,8 with AF please!

Reissue M Rokkor 28/f2.8 40/f2 90/f4 lenses with AF

A collapsible LM adaptor please!

A Panake APS version of Contax G35-70 -> Vario Sonnar 24-50/3.5-5.6

For my NEX, I have a set of insanely sharp Zuiko PEN FT lenses… all extremely compact and focus twice as close as any Voigtlander or Leica glass you can mod.

42mm f1.2, 60mm f1.5, 40mm f1.4, 38mm f1.8, 25mm f2.8, and a brilliant 50-90mm constant aperture f3.5. These lenses are as tiny as the Voigt and Leica and were designed for SLR so they have excellent corner sharpness on NEX, unlike rangefinder mods. They also made a 70mm f2 and 20mm f3.5, among others including a 38mm f2.8 pancake that’s only 14mm long and very high IQ.

Sony would do well to emulate these high quality prime lenses.

I wish Sony would make a nice NEX-5N kit with a 35mm f1.8 G lens (possibly both black..). This would sell like hot cakes. I think I could enter the system with something like that..

My guess is that the G lens Sony is to release in 2012 will more than likely be something similar to the 70-300G or at least a lens in that range. They might jump up into the 70-400 range but I think that it is not likely.

I don’t think you guys understand what “pancake lens” means. A lot of people asked for a 35/1.8 and other focal lengths with f/1.8-2 max aperture. Apertures larger than say f/2.5 in this focal length range are not possible to design as pancakes for the E-mount.

Now, if you expand the definition to mean a “relatively compact lens” like Olympus’ 45/1.8, then lenses like the 35/1.8 become possible. But in no way would they be considered pancake sized.