Quote:It's fun that they advertised mirrorless as a way to reduce weight, and we're seeing a constant increase of weight in lenses.
I agree, that I wouldn't like to use those heavy beasts - the only exception that I make is the 150-600mm, for obvious reasons.
Since there is no mirror box, a mirrorless camera can always be made smaller than a traditionnal DSLR.
Now, manufacturers may decide not to do it for whatever reason they might chose.
Take a Panasonic GM5 for instance. It's tiny and it even features an EVF. You can mount some very small lenses on it: Pany 14 f2.5, Pany 20 f1.7, Oly 12 f2, Oly 45 f1.8, etc. This couldn't be achieved with a DSLR (regardless of sensor size).
This being said, it puzzles me that manufacturers are not releasing more pancakes lenses. I'm sure they would sell like hot cakes. Something in the vein of the Canon 22 f2. A nice collection of f2 pancake lenses would be awesome, yet nobody does it.
Panasonic did it with the 14 f2.5 and 20 f1.7 (great). Why not more?
Olympus didn't release any single pancake lens for MFT (actually they did the 17 f2.8 which is crap)!
Fuji did the 18 f2 and 27 f2.8 (too slow). Too bad their new f2 line is not pancakes.
Pentax did the 21 f3.2 (too slow), 40 f2.8 (too slow), 43 f1.9, 70 f2.4 (great).
Canon did the 22 f2 (great) for the M.
Sony did the 16 f2.8 (crap).
Samsung did the 16 f2.4, 20 f2.8, 30 f2 (great)
We need more of these!