12-14-2018, 03:40 PM
We can always cherry pick particular lenses and they are some bargains like the Nikon 50mm f1.8G and 35 1.8G which are not greatly built or all that hot optically.
The Fuji f1.4 counterpart are more expensive but better built and better optically.
Now, if you look at the price of the Nikon Z lenses, the prices are much higher for similar f1.8 lenses...
Btw, Joju the Fuji 18-55 f2.8-4 is not 690 but 498.
Non of the zooms you compare it to are as good optically or as fast (the APS-C ones) and they are all more expensive.
With FF, you have either the choice of huge and crazy expensive glass or more reasonably priced but not that great (albeit some exceptions).
In ML land, there is almost nothing. The only example we have so far is Sony (huge and expensive), Z and R which have almost no options.
Obviously manufacturers could release slower more compact FF lenses if they wanted to but they're not going to. So what is the alternative? APS-C.
The Fuji f1.4 counterpart are more expensive but better built and better optically.
Now, if you look at the price of the Nikon Z lenses, the prices are much higher for similar f1.8 lenses...
Btw, Joju the Fuji 18-55 f2.8-4 is not 690 but 498.
Non of the zooms you compare it to are as good optically or as fast (the APS-C ones) and they are all more expensive.
With FF, you have either the choice of huge and crazy expensive glass or more reasonably priced but not that great (albeit some exceptions).
In ML land, there is almost nothing. The only example we have so far is Sony (huge and expensive), Z and R which have almost no options.
Obviously manufacturers could release slower more compact FF lenses if they wanted to but they're not going to. So what is the alternative? APS-C.