I guess first I have to buy a Z body and that's not happening until it is sports/wildlife oriented but I'm sure it will come, my guess is early next year.
The reasons why I would buy Z lenses are
But the real reasons why I wont be buying a lot of Z lenses in the foreseeable future are:
You are going to have to earn my move to mirror less.....
The reasons why I would buy Z lenses are
- Lighter and smaller
- Optically better (sharper corners I guess)
- New cool features (the control ring)
- Lens designs they couldn't make for the F mount
But the real reasons why I wont be buying a lot of Z lenses in the foreseeable future are:
- I have a ton of F mount lenses and can use them If I need to. I know about the adapter pain, I don't really like it on my EOS M5, but it does work very well.
- I really don't like having a set of lenses that doesn't work on all my bodies. I will for sure move to mirror less slowly, keeping my D850 and or D500 for quite some time. So if I buy a Z lens it does have to be very special, and here is where I think Nikon has not really come up with a plan. I would of course buy the 24-70 F4 because it is small light and sharp so that one falls in the reasonably special category (plus price is good. But I really would have wanted a 24-120mm F4 replacement. The Nikon Noct 58mm F0.95 is more then special its a specialty lens that few of us can afford and would really need. Canon (bless their heart ) are doing their damnest to come up with interesting lenses for their R series, and for me they just did . The Canon RF 24-240mm F4.5-F6.3 is a very compelling walkaround/all the time/travel lens, if the IQ is what it promises. To bad for Canon that their Mirror less bodies are such duds, but that will change too, rumors of a new sensor generation with better DR is in the air....
- It is also a sad truth that I just plain cant afford to buy all new lenses all the time. My super tele's will have to work with an adapter for quite some time since they are so expensive (and work well as is).
You are going to have to earn my move to mirror less.....