douglasf13
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Yes, but all of these cameras will be obsolete in 3 months' time. The lens will not.
Actually, that's my point. Lens and sensor combinations are more important than ever, so, unless you're shooting film, a lens could be somewhat obsolete if there isn't a proper sensor to match to it. Biogons, for example, are symmetrical designs that tend to struggle on digital. Symmetrical wides are becoming less and less common, so, in years to come, as Leica and Zeiss start producing more retrofocus designs, as they already have been of late, the need to design sensors to accommodate old symmetrical lenses becomes less and less.
I had a major reality check when, after using a NEX-7 for a few months with several M lenses, I bought the cheap Sigma 30/2.8, and it performed as good or better than my ZM 35/2.8 and ZM 35/2 on the NEX-7, simply because the Sigma was designed with the NEX-7 sensor in mind. Same goes with my Hasselblad 500. My current 500 series lenses work great on film, but, should I decide to move to medium format digital, I'd probably reconsider which lenses I use.
For decades, the relationship between lens and film has remained relatively constant, but it's a new ballgame with digital.