Mistral is it fair to say those triangular blades are rounded?
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Originally posted by Mountain Vision But you're choosing to look at it like this was a binary decision. Them refreshing this lens means there won't be a high res, over corrected monster that half the forum complains about being too big and way too expensive. When in reality, this is exactly what they should be doing. Pushing out refreshes of existing designs while simultaneously building ground up made for high resolution digital sensor designs. For instance, a lot of people are using the FA 20 with excellent results on the K-1. Why not push a HD FA 20 out the door as a refresh while designing a modern DFA 2Xmm?
I'm no fan of monster lenses either. I would like slower and smaller (cheaper) versions with the latest optical designs, for example, f4 versions of 24-70 and 70-200
but with stellar optics... Just like Nikon has f4 versions and in their mirrorless Z lenses, they are exactly what I describe, suitable for 45MP+ and uber sharp wide open but not 1kg+ monsters and are 1/2 the price. Check out the dpreview of the Nikon S 50mm f1.8 just to see what I mean. Not having to stop down to get rid of coma for astrophotography is a huge step forward and means you can do f1.8 instead of a stopped down f1.4.
I'm not a pixel peeping geek who posts photos on facebook and is complaining, I like to make very large prints of landscapes and this is why I'm thinking this way. So stellar f4 zooms instead of f2.8 versions. f2 vs f1.4 that are smaller, lighter, obviously cheaper but match the IQ of the monsters. I'd prefer this approach to recoating old lenses.
The monster ones should be available too for those who need f1.4 primes and f2.8 zooms. I'm not against them.