Originally posted by UncleVanya They seem to be pricing it as if it were a competitor to medium format. Slap a red dot on that sucker and the price starts to make sense...
Look at the SL lenses... sheesh.
16-35 f3.5-4.5 is nearly $5500
24-90 f2.8-4 is roughly $4200
90-280 f2.8-4 is about $6400
I like the 2.8-4 variable aperture on these and the extended zoom ranges on the two longer ones but the pricing is insane.
Right. And, looking at the reviews, the lenses are good... very good indeed... and yet, they still display limitations found with less stratospherically-priced glass. Perhaps less so, but my point is, the difference in optical performance between the D FA*70-200/2.8 and the Leica 90-280 f/2.8-4 isn't huge, it would seem, despite the Leica costing three-and-a-half times as much.
I can't see many Panasonic buyers being willing to pay that much for lenses, even if they've forked out $4,600 on the body. They're more likely, I suspect, to buy the Sigma glass that's coming soon...