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What would you like to do with an unpowered lens without a camera?

 

Adapt them to a different camera

 

 

 

All these tiny motors and actuators suck the battery empty, true, but this is not the major reason of poor "shots per charge"-numbers.

 

Actually when I had the very first Nex 5, it would return me about 300-400 shots per charge when the camera was completely stock (which means it was tyring to AF all the time, even when the shutter was not pressed). Using old Canon FD lenses I was able to shoot 2000 photos during a concert, on a single battery. So actually those actutators end up draining a lot of battery because of the way camera behaves.

 

 

 

I'm not sure, but I think it was one of the first X-lenses, so they were experimenting. And as you said yourself you could live with slow AF but not with unreliable.

 

It was in the first set of 3 lenses released, yes. Still, it was a very poor attempt at experimenting . And what does that tell you about the upcoming GFX system? Can we trust that one to be good out of the box or are we going to end up throwing away the first generation? The answer is: Neither of us will be buying one in the first place, right?  

 

35/1.4 is still one of my favorite lenses, especially at that price (Can buy one used for less than 200€ here). I'll happily pay double and buy the Sony 55/1.8 instead though (Which I have).

 

 

 

With Nikon, I only have 6 years experience and never a lens which was not working like expected,

 

Clearly you never put AI-S lens on a D90 (their enthusiast model) or a budget 50/1.8D on a D40 (their budget model) or the new E series on something older than 6-7 years (Does not work). 

 

 

 

I started with G lenses and now we have at Nikon as well some E versions which come with electrically operated apertures - no more levers. I can't say I miss it.

 

Yeah, good riddance. They should have done it way back in the day and at once like Canon.

 

 

 

I think you never ran focus reliability tests?

 

Was not needed. My friend had the 50/1.4 ART and it was clear as day even on the rear LCD that the camera would front focus twice and back focus the next shot on a still target in good light. No need to even remove the SD card from the camera, it was useless.