Ha! I keep forgetting shutters can go beyond 1/2000 🙂
Jon, I'm not trying to be flip or belabor anything...I'm honestly open to new ideas. So in that spirit, can you tell me why it is, for you, that if you are going out for the purposes of shooting (let's say digital) f1.2, you'd prefer an SLR? Your rig would indeed be a bit bigger, right?
While I'll occasionally pop a Summicron on and truly appreciate the lightness and compactness of the rig, what I'm essentially looking for is the most compact proposition for shooting 1.2 at a 50mm equiv. I think I have that with CV/R-D1... well, short of a Leica...
Steve, I see where you're coming from now.
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IMO compact (i.e. light weight) and f1.2 don't go together, but RF should be compact and light weight. So to me, an f1.2 lens on an RF misses the point of RF.
I built up my M-mount RF kit (Zeiss Ikon x2, ZM 21/4.5, CV 28/3.5, CV 35/1.4, ZM 50/2) specifically to be as light as possible as a replacement for the film SLR kit I used to carry while traveling. That SLR kit just got too heavy to carry around all day every day for weeks at a time, and I ended up doing my back in during a trip to Thailand because of it. I spent three days in my hotel room in Chiang Mai recovering
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Every now and then I miss not having a lens longer than 50mm, but not often. I also wish the ZM Planar 50/2 was a little more compact, but it is extremely light for a 50mm lens (under 200 grams) so its forgiven.
On an SLR, I don't care how big a lens is, as SLR bodies are usually heavy to start with. But I won't lug a heavy SLR kit around for days at a time.
I guess I could use (for example) a Nokton 50/1.1 on a ZI body instead of my Nikkor 50/1.2 on my F6, but I already have the F6 and Nikkor and am very happy with it. With the Nikon split screen for MF installed, the F6 is actually extremely easy to manual focus even in low light. Plus you can use focus confirmation.
So there you go. My M-mount RF kit fills a specific roll, and my SLRs do the rest.
