Originally posted by house Having a cheap line of small hd fa lenses with so so optics makes sense to me. You can make beautiful images with those existing fa lenses. As mentioned the HD FA 35 has been sold quite cheaply. I'm just "worried" the build quality is to good. For the cheapest line they should drop build quality a la plastic fantastics. That said the plastics already exist...
DFA 24mm f2.8, in about the same housing as the 35 mm f2.
Great walk around lens on APS-C, great inexpensive wide on FF. Everyone wins.
Then they can do a 20mm f1.8 Limited or whatever that is big, modern, and awesome.
-Eric