Originally posted by Wheatfield That's almost exactly the same as the D FA* 50/1.4.
Why would anyone buy it?
Look at prices for there 11mm "foto" lenses and then the comparable "cine" lenses and you'll notice that the still lenses are 1/2 the price.
Let's see where the prices actually end up when the product is on the market.
JensE: By not offering AF, how many DSLR owners are going to be interested in manually focusing a lens of this sort of focal length? Aperture rings do cause additional challenges when implementing WR but I'd rather have a less weather capable lens that I actually want to own... Truth be known, I'd rather have a 50 1.2 than a 45 1.4 so I'm probably not in the market for this anyway and will go back to watching prices on 35+ year old glass instead.