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In Japan everything cute flies. It was also the only market with massive sales of Pentax Q cameras.
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And it is the introduction sales wave, will it hold?
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You are funny, JoJu. I have nothing against Sigma, just the bad cameras they have put out are not very desirable (crazy slow, crazy low computing power, crazy featureless, crazy foveon sensors). That is not despising Sigma. Yay for Sigma when they introduce actually good cameras, just like Yay for Sigma when they bring good/great lenses.
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The downside to the L-mount in comparison to the Nikon Z-mount is the more limited diameter (48.8mm, vs 55mm for the Z-mount) and the flange distance (20mm, same as Canon RF-mount, vs 16mm for the Z-mount). So in theory, there can be lenses designed for for instance Sony FE (18mm flange distance) and Nikon Z that will not fit Canon RF and L-mount due to the slightly bigger flange distance (and lenses can be designed for RF and Z-mount that won't fit L and E-mount due to limited mount diameter).
That is looking at the platform (mount) rather than individual camera models. But few choose a platform because of 1 certain special lens, of course.
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When I look at the rear end of the 4 S-lenses I have so far, none of them is even close to take advantage of the big diameter. The short distance - maybe. But with the short distance came the colour blobs caused by light reflecting from the sensor to the lens' rear end and back to sensor which I never saw with larger flange distances.
If Nikon comes up with more costly f/0.95 lenses I don't think I will benefit ever from the bigger mount. For f/1.8 the smaller L-mount will do.
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I guess you are not familiar with mr Huff's infomercials yet? This "review" reads like any/every "review" he ever writes. This Sigma may well be a nice camera, just pointing out that mr Huff is not to be taken that seriously when he writes these articles.