05-23-2012, 10:50 PM
I remember a blog post demonstrating quite convincingly that price was, in most occurences, related to weight of glass. Although it's probably more of a coincidence than a formal proof. Still, I think it made sense somehow in raw material costs. Remains to be seen how largely raw material costs take part in the total.
I don't think we can talk of a good deal here, even at 900€ <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />. For once, I'll take Klaus' approach : eventhough it is physically a 2.8 lenses, it suffers from the fact it is roughly within the same paradigm as FF cameras (FT, APS, FF are often unrealistically compared together; MF being in the 4 digit $ class) and some specs will be compared e.g. the DOF control it's going to give you, etc... So it's asking 900€ for what you'd get for much less for say, a pentax 17-70 f/4 and not that far from the "real FF deal". Put that way, I think the price is frankly high.
But from MY point of view, I often reason that MFT has no viable alternative yet and therefore, within MFT, I'm looking for the fastest&sharpest I could possibly get. Under that light, the price appears slightly more reasonable "no choice".
I just hope Panasonic will acknowledge the need, as they enter the High Grade section (excluding the 7-14mm), of top notch quality control.
Greetings,
S.
I don't think we can talk of a good deal here, even at 900€ <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />. For once, I'll take Klaus' approach : eventhough it is physically a 2.8 lenses, it suffers from the fact it is roughly within the same paradigm as FF cameras (FT, APS, FF are often unrealistically compared together; MF being in the 4 digit $ class) and some specs will be compared e.g. the DOF control it's going to give you, etc... So it's asking 900€ for what you'd get for much less for say, a pentax 17-70 f/4 and not that far from the "real FF deal". Put that way, I think the price is frankly high. But from MY point of view, I often reason that MFT has no viable alternative yet and therefore, within MFT, I'm looking for the fastest&sharpest I could possibly get. Under that light, the price appears slightly more reasonable "no choice".
I just hope Panasonic will acknowledge the need, as they enter the High Grade section (excluding the 7-14mm), of top notch quality control.
Greetings,
S.